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[BRHSlist] How does a railroad crossing work?

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Subject: [BRHSlist] How does a railroad crossing work?
From: "wollffee" <wolfee@onebox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:39:40 -0000
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What triggers the lights/bell/crossing gate when a train approaches 
the crossing?  How come when the BNSF approaches the crossing at 80th 
and Sheridan, NW of Denver, it triggers the crossing a quarter mile 
before it gets there--even a coal train chugging at 5 mph.  But, once 
it passes, the gate goes up almost instantly after the train is 
thru?  Sometimes a southbound pulls right up to the crossing and then 
stops.  After he gets stopped, somebody does something to let the 
gate back up while the train just sits there.  How do they make the 
gate go back up when the train is parked just a few feet from the 
crossing?


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