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- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!slxinc!jim
- From: jim@specialix.com (Jim Maurer)
- Subject: Re: Grade crossings, etc. (was Re: Deaths on Railroad Prop...)
- Organization: Specialix Inc.
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:36:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzzA51.35C@specialix.com>
- References: <1992Dec23.162343.29221@stsci.edu> <Bzq4B6.JHA@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec27.042134.28739@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec27.064746.27037@netcom.com>
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- tssmith@netcom.com (Tim Smith) writes:
-
- >There is an interesting situation on the CalTrain commuter line on
- >the SF Peninsula. Just a hundred yards or so north of the San Mateo
- >station there is a grade crossing guarded by gates. When a
- >northbound train stops at the station, the gates go back up to let
- >traffic through. When the train gives its two-toot highball, a sound
- >sensor near the gates lowers them again. All this even though there
- >is little traffic on the cross street, and a station stop rarely
- >takes more than 45 seconds. Maybe it's a remnant of an old SP
- >experiment.
-
- Actually, there are quite a few places on CalTrain with crossing gates
- activated the same way. I think Milbrae is one.
-