Railroad Crossing Gate Still Malfunctions After Years
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This is a video I made at the Tennessee Avenue railroad crossing in Lakeland Florida of a crossing gate that has been malfunctioning for over 3 years and has been reported of the speed of the gate when it lowers to fast that could cause injury to a person or damage to a vehicle it they or it got hit by the guillotine gate. After a CSX worker attempted to fix the gate after to no prevail the crossing gate is still not working properly.
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If they can't fix the crossing gate, replace the damn gate
i agree with you :)
I aggre
It’s that easy
@@vibezwithando1041 he means the mechanism
@@trainhunter1236 oh
+Millenniumforce Time 2:30 *Looks as though Arm 3 is short maybe two (2) plates on the counterweight.* The brake shouldn't have to kick in as it did, and the motor's straining to raise the arm. I'm incredibly picky on counterweighting - the arm should be turnable by hand with the gears disconnected. Arm 3? Time to call in the transmission jacks - more weight, which means the existing plates have to be supported during removal and eventual reinstallation and torquing of the retaining nuts.
Thank you for that valuable input.
I was thinking the same thing about the counter weights.
You said exactly what I was thinking. Not enough counterweights to raise and lower the gates properly. You right, the brakes shouldn’t have that much stress on them going down and the gates should raise with ease. Anyone who knows how to install those type of signals knows that you have to “balance” the gates. (Put enough counterweight on them to balance at a 30 degree angle or somewhere around that.)
Looks like a counter weight imbalance. Adjust those and it should fine. If not then a gear box issue
Wide World of Trains Same thought here.
I thought that too
That's what I was thinking
Is you wide world of train
A little too much drama when you walk away from lens. Thanks for the update though.
Nice video Alan!! If that worker clearly couldnt see that that was a safety hazard then there is something wrong.
I would've let it hit me, then been like "ima sue now" lol
For that gate to hit a car, it means that car is driving around the other gates. So it deserves to be hit.
Yes, the gate is coming down too fast. But it's not the first one to come down.
My conclusion is that the gate mechanism should be replaced. During different parts of the video, not only was it falling too fast on all instances, but due to the adjustments, it was going up too slow (all the other gates practically beat it) Only towards the very end it seemed to go up fine.
They just need to replace the stupid gate because what I can see that's happening is that the motor is driving the gate down way too fast, so either the gate is too heavy for the motor or the motor's speed is set too high. Great video and I hope they finally did something with this crossing gate by now.
The gates were like I'm tired can we stop😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tony:yall feeling alright? !
Ben:no I keep on going down too fast
Franky:(
LESSEE :HELP IS on the way
ben:yay
(Fixing)
BEN:back to narmal
Everyone:horray
Ben:know noeno won't think me as a killer
Tony:let's get back to work since ben is fixed
Franky:I love China
Franky:weep Chinese food
Ben:thank you human
Everyone :everyone is fine
And they live happly as ever
Something definitely wrong here, Great Video!
2:27 Off with your head!
If they can’t fix the Gates they need to replace the train Crossing
Very nice video!!!!
In the intro the engineer seemed kinda chill considering he almost got killed by it
Awesome video!
This Quad-Gate Is So Fast And It’s Getting On My Nerds
Your *nerds?*
Apparently the gates are working with in the proper limits. By the time the gates start down all the traffic should be stopped.
Yup! You are right! It needs to be replaced.
Id hate to have to drive through that crossing
There is nothing wrong with the gate. The one on the other side of the road goes down way before that one does which means a car would clearly have time to have gotten across before it went down anyway. I have been across that track several times and never have seen an issue.
I'm sorry sir but you're wrong. It doesn't matter which gate goes down first, if you see another quad setup like this, you would see that 1 exit gate will be delayed but kept the normal speed as the other exit gate.
51st! I am the 51st person to view this video. Yay. Ur right they should replace it. That is one messed up gate. Maybe the counter weight is not Heavy enough. I think that's it. But nice GS type 2 E-Bell.
Love the music!
The gate goes down very fast. But! It goes up very slow!
Replace the whole damn crossing indeed - two of the signals are OLDER than the one with the gate that would turn Stupid Orange into Tropicana Orange Juice!
2:26 Let the execution begin!
How they still malfunction
7:47 I would say that too Replace the Whole Goddamn Thing!
That employee needs to find a different job...he obviously doesn't know how to fix the problem..
Bill G Or CSX should retrain him on how to do his job.
Perhaps it's a "Union Crossing"? The RR Union requires certain gates stay broken to avoid staffing cuts if they were all working correct? Job security at it's finest?
it's been almost 3 Years Alan did they Replace that Whole Gate Yet?
They probably should redo the entire crossing system, replace the sensors and stuff like that
No
you should put the stupid orange on a cone under the fast gate. 😂 🤣
LOL LOL LOL
Ya lol
There is an issue with the gates across from my house where it will go down with no train and sometimes it may stay down for a few hours and they replaced the box and nothing is happening >:(
Ya do it plz
It might not be up to code but it is still working just stop vehicles
Awesome video
The power down contact may not be adjusted correctly
Its all counterweights. They would probably need more counter weights
Nice video, ya that gate shud not go that, great video 🙂👍
not only does it go down Very Fast Alan it goes up so Slow! Drivers are gonna be waiting for the Gate a bit longer than the other Gates!
Did they end up replacing it
All they need are LED replacements and a slower gear ratio on that one gate
I think It’s because the gate is too long
I SEE, there STILL are #NOPEDESTRIAN GATES ON SIDEWALK!
The gates closest to the traffic direction of flow, should go down first, the second gate in the same direction is delayed to allow any car stopped on the tracks, time to escape, HOWEVER, I agree, the escape gate on the close (Far right side) is still going down too fast, might need to have counterbalance adjusted, or the gearing changed.
Whenever This Crossing Malfunctions and a train is REALLY coming Lakeland will be Rekted
I'd say leave it alone let it clobber somebody that's trying to beat the train
That’s an odd crossing setup
Railfanner777 cars shouldn't be going round the crossing gates in the first place.
Yeah, with the incandescent and LEDs
It's called a Quad Crossing. A Quad Crossing is an RR Crossing that consists of 4 gates.
I know it is because I lived in an apartment with a quad gated railroad crossing beside it
I'm a female rail fan upstate NY think that gate was fast? I have seen one go down faster than that ony time thought it would break off its box. Lucky it was 2am no cars coming just me wacth in the local job
They should fix it or replace it
Jesus will that sensor ever run out of battery
Wait hold on, if the crossing malfunctioned consistently for three years, shouldn't CSX have replaced the rotten thing by now? Also, the batteries would need to have gone dead from the amount of false activations over that period of time.
AC Power is a thing, you know that right?
Did they have to replace the whole gate mechanism
Are you sure the Orange is not behind this?
Looks like it's also struggling to raise back up.
Gee, I wonder why...
In the intro, were you walking in front of the Amtrak train?
It was a video with special effects
The counter weights are not balanced
I love how people who aren't maintainers talk out their ass about things they know nothing about. I only wish mine looked and worked that good. If it had been out of spec. the FRA would have caught it when he did his inspections.
Do you think the gate is heavy?
It's like theres something wrong with it's gear box
Liked the Video Keep up the Good Work! :)
was he still working on it after you were done filming
No he had left and the gate still comes down fast.
Maybe it’s time for new gates.
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it does the Pierre to come down kind of quickly but it doesn't look dangerously so I mean the Bell goes off the lights Flash and then the gate comes on kind of fast but not Dangerously
Holy cow how long have you been a youtuber
Aidan Burns 24th of may 2006 is when he started
Cool
may 24 of this year marks 11 years
12 years
Millenniumforce almost
Well jeez if you want it replaced/fixed so bad become a signal maintainer and fix it yourself rather than belating the guy
Did they ever bring back the horns to Lakeland
Nope, Lakeland is a Permanent Quiet Zone, due to crybabies saying it's too loud.
Why can't that guy just do something about the counterweights?
The counterweights are installed properly.
Replace gate box assembly some thing is defective
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signal house would be good
2:28 Gosh
I like ur vid
That's the idiot gate. It's for Idiots who speeds up when they see the gates coming down. Not knowing that that gate is going to come down fast and WHAM!!!!
its doing like a british crossing up
Bad counter balance on the gate mechanism. On a grade crossing signal inspection and QC job, that would of been an automatic failure
on any assessment of these signals. In that case, BNSF would replace the whole signal.
CSX Just Doesn't treat their things with care!
Report him to CSX Alan Smith
That would cost CSX about $1,890 if the worker is guilty of not repairing/replacing the warning devices.
Hay what is up
FIX IT csx come on csx
That’s way too fast
whats that name of the song at 0:00
Darude - Sandstorm.
I believe it's Pomking King or something like that.
JUST REPLACE DA STUPID THING
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