[RP TownTalk] csx railroad crossing

[ABragg7393 at aol.com]

I just want to say thank you Chris.  And... also...I want everyone in  town 
to know how much I admire you.  This is a young man who should be  honored 
with resident/citizen of the year!  Chris is a strong volunteer in  the 
community.  As  you can see he is a good communicator, intelligent  and a caring 
member of society.  I can't say enough nice things about  him.  Chris you 
are a role model for all the young people in town.   Wish we could clone you! 
 Love you, Audrey Bragg
 
 
In a message dated 5/31/2009 9:24:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
theemdnut4139 at yahoo.com writes:


greetings, in regards to the recent track repair, i would like to  direct 
your attetion to the gate malfunction at queensbury road, when i was  doing 
my displays at the mark i saw csx signalman at the signal box on  lafyette 
road working in there, but then a marc train and freight passed the  gates and 
they didnt activate, what has happened was there are a network of  wires 
that ground the signal to the gates from the silver shed next to dumm's  
corner, when the gates is activated, the computers inside tell the main  computer 
that their is a short circuit (that what makes the gates activate) in  the 
system which then drops the gates, many people believe the engineers have  
control NO!!!!! the new gates are linked by a new digital system. if you  
remember the old gates, they used to drop when there was heavy weather such as  
rain and snow, but, this new system works off of sensors and wires to 
activate  and relay info in the rails itself notifying train location and
other info,  i was there with the track team, as they worked in the station 
all the way to  new york ave, it is suspected that the BALLAST regulator ( 
a vehicle that  spreads the rocks on the track surface evenly) caused the 
malfunction and the  fact that 70 M.O.W. (maintence of way) cars  and 5 trains 
were working  there all day, was the issue. csx track speed thruogh 
riverdale is 50 mph  freight  55 passenger including amtrak (brunswick line) and 
that shall be  left to CSX for further note on changes to track speed. if the 
gates  malfuction, trains must stop before, and blow four long toots and lay 
flares  out to warn drivers of trains and gates. that goes for ALL train 
systems, FRA  rules do apply, the reason why the gates didnt work is because 
the track team  was still workin and the signalman has to RESET the signal in 
the computer to  be interpretated into the rail itself, that takes 2 hours, 
because they were  dealing with marc trains and a two and a half
mile long heavy freight and  the track team all moving at the same times 
this occured. i hope this answer  helps out the resolution to the issue. chris 
benjamin 




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