Safety Facts About Crossing Tracks (1970) 

I used to drive exclusively on the Ballarat line before I retired after having a mental breakdown after a fatality there are one or two unprotected level crossings

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Yepper, a virtual time machine! I was 7 in 1970. An era when the personal computer didn't yet exist, the smartphone was a multi-line phone with intercom, video games were found only at bars and lounges (the few which existed, that is -- anyone remember "Pong?"), radio was still a significant source of entertainment, and life was much more simple.

They taught you this in Grade school? Wtf!! My Freshman year was the last woodshop class at my highschool and my senior year my brother took the last auto shop class. Very sad.

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Me too

Me three!

Same here.

And why not? It's fun to watch trains pass by!

And tell the wife to wait with the car.

what if the train derails?

@Lazys The Dank Engineer In case the train becomes unbalanced and derails, it has happened before several time.

@@swingrfd and your son, he's a little shit

Your car can be replaced. Your life can't.

Ah yes he is an og Canadian National employee

and im the king of pluto

And you wonder why carburetors gave way to electronic fuel injection.

That looks like a Budd RDC - a diesel railcar.

microbusss you mean 48 years later

49 Years

Im guessing 50 years now?

People get dumber and dumber

I would make the arm long enough to cover 2 lanes, hopefully that would do something. Or if they smash it, I say let them suffer the consequences of their action.

Could tell they used stop motion photography for the cars. Well done.

Ya I used to have some HO trains like those. A pretty good job the film makers did I think, using the models. I'm guessing stop action photography they used.

It's been stated that it takes 1 mile for a train to completely stop on average, so it's pretty much too late if you're stuck on the tracks especially if the train's going 50+ mph

And billboard boxcars, open auto-racks, graffiti-free rolling stock...

And, no puke-green vests.

Better get used to seeing those neon-green reflector vests on railroaders from here on out. Railroad safety rules require them, and they make the railroad employees easier to see in all lighting conditions. Safety first! P.S. I like Alco locomotives too! We Alco fans call ourselves "Alco-haulics!"

Alcos are garbage

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Very early example of an upper quadrant. Beyond rare.

It's to ensure vehicles aren't trapped the lights are still active

Today, the gates would be down for 15-20 seconds before the train arrives.

The 1972 Congers bus crash led to a federal requirement that school bus drivers have a CDL and that they undergo ongoing training.

Lights were already flashing. The gates were still up to prevent people from being trapped.

ur outdated

@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 what do you mean?

eric zerkle Goof Spotted *Thomas O Face*

Depends on what you mean by "today's version of the crossbuck."

I love them too.

I believe today's US crossbuck became standard in the 1971 manual uniform traffic control devices. I've seen the design of today's crossbuck in pictures as early as the 1940's. And I've seen them in black and yellow as late as the 1980's.

There was an accident in the UK where that contributed to an accident (if I recall, it was fatal too). The lights reflecting off a wet road surface masked the lights, and a car driver went straight onto a crossing and into the path of a train.

I vaguely recall one in Stark County, Ohio that was eventually replaced with mast-mounted lights. The crossing became obsolete in the 1990s.

​​@Mrright87People can't or won't understand that we can't stop on a dime even though we throw our braking into emergency and that what frustrates and angers us brotherhood all around the world

Almost all crossings have gates today.

@@AVeryRandomPerson In my hometown, the gates are made in a way that it is almost impossible to go around them, unless you just crash through. My remark about when I was a child means more than fifty years ago.

Never. It's "something that happens to other people"....until it happens to them.

7:23 - 7:28 is where a road rage truck driver tried to push Dennis Weaver's car into the path of a Southern Pacific freight tain in the 1971 film 🎥 " Duel " shot on location at Soledad Canyon.

Alcos are garbage

I think that law was still fairly new in 1970. If I tried that now (I drive a bus), someone would notice, and I'd hear about it. I pretty regularly stop when driving my car, even at signaled crossings; both out of habit, and to see if I can catch a train there

try again

Why?

And the wooden A-framed gates!

John Howard theres actually two at bright side crossing and near bright side yard

John Howard bring Griswold signals back

John Howard we should bring them back but make sure lights are there too!

That's HO Scale by the way.

Sad but true...and they also might try pulling around you to drive over the crossing.

@@menslady125eif2590 Even more sad when they swing around a bus that's stopping at the tracks as it should. How is it NOT "common sense" to other motorists that school buses stop at the tracks?

@@menslady125eif2590 and then they are hit by the train instead and you live.

Yes, compare that to a typical modern crossing signal setup, the only motor movement is the crossing gates lowering and then rising after the train has passed, and that leaves a LOT less wear and tear on a motor.

Union Illinois rr museum has wig wags

@reverse thrust Some crossings have electronic bells, others have mechanical ones, some have both. There _should_ be a modern variant of the wig-wag signal for use in historic communities.

There is some truth to what you say but there are several errors as well. To your point about the burning-out coils, if one of the coils burns out (at least a WRRS Autoflag) then the banner will still swing, just in an irregular and inconsistent fashion. In addition, the bell will continue to ring as well because it is on a separate circuit and is not wired in series with the coils since they alternatively switch on and off. Also, the issue of the sun lighting up the banner does not seem that plausible. The optics of the lenses on the banner condense any light that passes through the backside of them so much and only straight forward that in the daytime, you may not even be able to see the wig wags own lightbulb if you stand to the side of one while it is operating. However, if you shine a light on the front side, they behave like a very inefficient and semi-transparent retroreflector. You cannot see the source of the light shining on the front side through the backside at any intensity unless your eyes very close to, or exactly colinear and parallel to the direction it is being emitted from. You also need to keep in mind that you are talking about ambient light passing through two of these lenses, making it even less likely to noticeably appear illuminated. The banner light also has sun visors just like conventional crossing lights for that reason you mentioned. The only instance where this may even be a minor problem is in a place where there is no vegetation, the area is completely flat for hundreds of miles allowing the sun's light to line up exactly parallel and collinear to the wig wag before it is masked by the horizon, and the wig wag is facing either directly east or west. Only then could a significant amount of the sun's light make it through both optical lenses, but even conventional crossing lights would have the same problem, because they use almost identical optic lenses as well, and there is a conical mirror directly behind the bulb or LED. Here is a WRRS Autoflag with a burnt-out coil still operating: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kq5t7fiZbRI.html In another shot, you can also see that the light is on and not burnt out.

The US&S wig-wags with the disappearing banners will leave it's banner suspended when there's no power to the magnets, as the banner is normally held up by one of the magnets when not active.

Not surprising given that a signal maintainer on SP subsidiary Pacific Electric actually invented the wig-wag!

Geoffrey Lee signalling a stop

That's a paddlin' !

Arm down = stop.

Probably was in places like Brooklyn or Chicago