Actually I do live right next to a railroad crossing. The train vibrates my home. It's like a small earthquake. Like a 5.0 I love it!!!

That train horn still sounding even down the track

Heritage Paint Scheme! Great Catch!

I like the part where he asks if its the Auto Train when you can clearly see Amfleets, lol...

Cool nice to hear that it travels to different locations

Thank you for this video we have many accidents at the crossing in Thailand .

Thanks I know the engineer so when he see's me filming he gives me horn action.

Love your vids, i live in CT, and my bus stop is next to the tracks, get to see the Amtrak early commuter every day, so much fun!

@Millenniumforce

10 жыл бұрын

That's cool

@Datskinnychild

10 жыл бұрын

it is except for the Southern Connecticut train that comes sometimes..

Maybe I should call it the Amtrak Anniversary Locomotive

Here they act up when it's really hot

I'm not 100% correct, but sometimes crossings go down when a train switches or some idiot puts a metal bar across the tracks.

YES

the ghost engine keeps going back & fourth

@randomlocomotive5863

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Wilkinson i was always doing that in Trainz simulator 2009

Gee! Thanx again! Isn't tnis amazing that we are actually having a musicological analysis of the MELODY of something that to others is just a regular train?? I am not too much of a train freak, but this sound I remember well from my early childhood (2-4). We lived on Edgewood Dr. Royal Oak MI, relatively close to a rail track. It's now engraved in my brains I guess and wakes up all sentiments... Thanks again! Will play it for myself on the keyboard!

one should never pick up a flare unless they are workers of the Rails or an Officer

Loved trains since I was a kid and Its prolly safe to say you have too. I stumbled across your page and I enjoy your videos. Thanks for posting them.

Thank you for the comment and information

I love that horn

Like that you got the phase 1 heritage Amtrak locomotive and a mix of amfleet and viewliners. Could of gone without the signal malfunction.

The Mechanical bell is a C Natural Gong on a WABCO. The E_Bell is a Safetran Type 1 tone.

@mainlineproductions513

8 жыл бұрын

+President Buziness The e bell is actually a general signals type 1

@FranzFerdinandVIII

8 жыл бұрын

Main Line Productions Oh.... i thought the E_Bell was a Safetran but THANK U SO MUCH!!!!!

@mainlineproductions513

8 жыл бұрын

President Buziness You're welcome. I'm going to make a video of different e-bells. Hopefully, i could upload it within a month or two.

@DenverRailfanHD

8 жыл бұрын

The mechanical bell is a WCH, not a WABCO.

@FranzFerdinandVIII

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much! Thunder will love what u said!🚂🚂

Ay first I thought you were screwing around with the gates to get the train to stop, but after watching more and some of your other videos, I know you wouldn't do that. Nice catch and good that you called it in..

The BNSF line that I go video at, one day the crossing arms went up and back down when the train was going through the crossing. Very nice catch!!

No you are if you believe it!!!

@tabithaburton4735

6 жыл бұрын

Millenniumforce AND STUPID

Do modern RR still use the old fashioned wigwag or just the gate and flashing light?

Cool Sight. Thanks

No. The CSX repair guy said it was caused by the control box being over heated. once he opened the doors the gates stopped.

Thank you

awesome horn action

Good of you to report the malfucntion. Thank you. BUT WHY STOP when the signals PROPERLY OPERATED and closed the crossing? Wastes time, fuel, flares, causes slight passenger discomfort. (I would have extinguished the flares and taken them home for July 4th.)

how u put the camera on top of the gates

Lightning video I have up here and If we have water Spouts I will record them. I don't know what made the bells ring shake the camera. And if the gates had stayed up I know how to get them down for a brief minute to get my camera back. LOL

@MegaSquadVincent

4 жыл бұрын

I can’t belive the crossing gate lift stole your camera up in the air LOL

there`s a lot of railroad crossings that malfunction on the csx chicago main line and west shore railroad in fairport new york

I will probably use it as a secondary camera. two different views at the same time. I can't let that camera go!!! It got me into a movie in the theatres last year and it's on DVD today. The movie I was in for 30 seconds riding a rollercoaster I filmed myself is called LIFE IN A DAY.

He said sometimes the control box gets to hot and causes them to do that.

@Rlotpir1972

4 жыл бұрын

Control box needs to have a 'kill' switch once it reaches danger temperature and automatically alert it to CSX.

Is the crossing fixed

What is the name of the road or street shown in the video shot above?

We have has something like that happen here in a small town when a train was going by fast or even slow the gates would go back up when the train was still going by and wouldn't come back down !

is there a small substation where the electronics are cause if there is you could put an air conditioning unit in there

Nice shot of the Phase 3 heritage. And boy what a horn show. And that poor camera. lol

What is that u picked millineum force

was that the amtrak heritage unit

Just as with your camera shot from the gate itself' its a good thing Alan you take the inishetive to report every problem crossing you see. Amtrack & CSX should pay you for alearting them every time you see a problem! From the pay role of the signal masters office.

good timing

Is Sanford near Orlando

Thank you. No I would never mess with bringing down the gates. Especially on camera. LOL Which I have done way in the past. LOL Thanks for the comment

Yeah right.. That would be incriminating me in a illegal activity. I know a few places where crossing malfunction or reset so I go to them knowing in advance that they do that. Thanks for the comment.

Nice catch man! Great work in reporting problems to the respected parties!

I guess it would be quite pleasant to live next to those things buzzing every 20 seconds

I honestly don't even are why the need of the flare since the crossing arms were down before, during and after the train passed. It's nice they stopped to check to make sure things were ok though.

Hahaha. How funny attaching your camcorder to the gate. Interesting view. First "Gate's eye view"! Would be funny if the malfunction then ceased and you could not get your camera until the next train. (Does the pavement behind you reveal that another track had crossed the road?) Was the bell's rhythmic current draw causing the gate to shake the camcorder? Interesting! Please keep doing your fun and interesting videos. Hope you'll do lightning and waterspouts. Thank you.

Thanks Amtrakboy. I could make the gates go down by putting a wire ,pipe or jumper cables from rail to rail. it shorts the circuit and makes the gates go down then back up but I don't do that in my video's.The crossing in my video does that all the time and the CSX workers say that's normal for that crossing because of a signal ahead that resets the crossing when a train goes by heading North. Thanks

I saw 145 on the Vermonter here in CT the other day

Wow! Man! This is super! Thanks! In some countries chords are named in different way. What could be the chord you mentioned in say C major? Tone by tone? c e g b-flat c#? Can't figure this out...

Its a ghost train!!!

The flare has a life span of 10 minutes and is for the cars at the crossing. Even if a train came behind it it would have to stop and throw a new flare down

You've got the timing down pat, lol

I use an extension cord with both ends cut off. LOL

I seen that happen one time down the street from my home. It was late at night and I car had to slam on it's brakes or it would have went right under it. Very Scary

There's this one marketplace in Texas right next to a busy railroad, trains every five minutes. The marketplace is called "Ham Orchards" in case you want to do some extra filming ;)

How could the cameras suggest that?

5:38 krooiiiiinnnkkk problem of shock absorbers ... at noise it should go to technical control, car at end of life 😂😂

I wonder if the track sensors that were supposed to control the crossing signals had been interfered with by animals? Perhaps an armadillo? That would seem to need precautionary measure to keep the animals away, not just a fix of the sensors. Additionally, I noticed the overhead gantry across the road which seems logical as this is evidently an industrial area with lots of evidence of large trucks in the area.

@Millenniumforce

9 жыл бұрын

The CSX worker showed up and it was a cooling fan went out in the control box overheating the board

Amtrak horns ae so melanholic! What is it? A major triad with a sixth? Beautiful!

Nice heritage fleet baggage on the rear..

Why does the Amtrak has to stop for crossing malfunctions

I through the flare to the side because the train was gone and I didn't want a car running it over or a child picking it up and getting burned. When the train went through the crossing there is no need for it anymore.

Thank you, English. What is a "treadle? We use track circuit shunt and motion detection. I own signal relays and batteries. Often we have enough batteries to operate detection and signals for a week. (Of course, this depends on how much use.) The problem is there is no indication if the system fails. Chinese blue (o) not lighted indicates thathe system has failed. Therefore one knows to look for trains. There are many level crossings without gates (booms). (Which are kept up by power.)

how long did it take for the workers to arrive

@Millenniumforce

9 жыл бұрын

About 1 hour

Hey you got even luckier,you caught an anniversary unit!

It says it in the beginning of the video Country Club Rd

I love the older P42 it's cooler than the DC

interesting video. I want to see in the control box

I think that camera's had better days! Jk 😀

The signal master? How do you have the number for that lol? Do you call the general number or is there a number on the gate box thing?? Interesting. At least you did the right thing, idk if I would have known what to do.

The gates malfunctioning is kinda funny....It was kinda funnywhen the lowered on that white truck...trolling drivers.

Good catch! Good of you to report it. Thank you. But why stop and lay fusees when the signals ARE OPERATING PROPERLY and closing the crossing? What a waste for everyone, including making drivers wait. One driver turned around. Did you look for anything, plant matter or whatever is electrically conductive, shunting the track? I would have cleaned the flangeways. Did you see the signal maintainer and learn the cause? Thank you.

No, he just opened the door for a few minutes then locked it up and left.

Love trains myself. I always wondered how to get an Amtrak train to stop for no reason at all. Hahahahahaha!!!!! Well, i guess that this is one way to get a train to stop. Usually the train would stop at the station as we all know. For an Amtrak train to stop for a weird reason is very very unlikely but I should say that it could happen where a train stops for an unusual reason. Lol!!!!! Well, this was as reason but I bet it fooled the engineers of these trains loo…. I still remember this and I will tell this story. Well, when I was in elementary school, I always wondered what it would bee like to ride in a freight train engine. Well, it happened one Friday morning and I still remember it. I don’t know how this happened but I was talking to someone and I stated that I would love to see about riding in a freight train engine. Well, the train was by the school well it would come by freight and Amtrak because the school where I attended was near the tracks. You would just go out the gate and on the other side the tracks were their. Anyways, someone had talked with the right people because one morning I was brought to the gate of my school. Their we waited. You will never guess what happened next. A right moment and the right time came perfectly. A freight train stopped by the school and we went from the gate out to the train. It was idling. We were instructed to climb in the engine and we did. I got a soda from the engineer and a shirt. Wel, I got to operate the engine for a while. I rode on the freight engine for about a half hour. Someone was behind the train following by car so we could turn around and get back to the school. It was really weird though for this kind of thing to happen. This was not a normal day at all and it is not normal to see a train stop right in Groton of the school. Whoops in front of the school and actually getting on it. I still to this day remember it like it was yesterday. This was an unusual thing for a kid in elementary school to have happen and even for anyone. Normal situation, nobody is allowed even in an Amtrak engine let alone a freight train engine it was arranged to have this happen though. Still it is these unusual thing to happen. On a normal basis it is very strange for a train to stop and get to ride in the engine. Hahahahaha!!!! This was an event that only happens maybe once in a life time. Something I will always remember. I will never forget this day though having a train stop right in front of me like a bus practically and beeing able to get on it and ride in the engine….. I would say this this event was cool but on the other hand very strange hahahahahahaha!!!! But this actually did happen to me one time now my adult life I still remember that event like it was yesterday. Having a freight train stop right in front of me and beeing told to climb aboard it. This was both very strange and unusual but very exciting at the same time.

It was a shot of steam You could also hear it

So cars know there is a problem with the crossing and a train is nearby

y did you move the flare of the road to the side yes but not of completely they are there to warn drivers of the situation

why didn't the train just go the crossings where down!

nice horn show

There should be a fan in the control box to keep it cool.

Maybe there was a train behind which kept changing switches?

I own some bells. They draw much current when their contacts close and energize the coil. That current draw may be briefly affecting (starving) the gate motor, causing uneveness. Or maybe reverse EMF from the coil is affecting the motor! The clapper hitting the bell could not be causing enough vibration to shake the gate. Hope he installed a cooling fan in the "Instrument case" I call relay cabinet or shanty. That action is unacceptable.

so what happend how were they malfuncting man can you tell us that and your a good man for reporting that i do the same thing around here

So moving the flare had a purpose?

Nice K5LA

it kept scaring me when the camara moved when the gate when up

Please do so! These are extremely nice and rare to catch! Great video too! Just call it "Amtrak 145…"

Use jumper cables across the rails to lower the gates.

were they actually malfunctioning?

so what was wrong with the crossing???

@mikeoxlong6996

5 жыл бұрын

They went back down every 20 sec

nice horn show ya got there by 145

he should of tryd to force the gate up well it was down.

The railroad worker arrived and said it was over heating in the main box that's why the gates were malfunctioning. He also seen me do it and didn't care. Also you got to take a chance in life to get the right video. There are so many laws everyone breaks one everyday of there lives and you don't even know it. LOL

I through the flare to the side because the train was gone and I didn't want a car running it over or a child picking it up and getting burned.

Yeah, I gave you the wrong info: is a minor 6th, D# F# A# C D# , i guess enharmonically it would the same step I guess a step and a half lower. I gave you one for the Nathan M5's. Had all those RR airhorn keys written down someplace. But found the link for the ones Amtrak and most roads use today. Its a K5LA series.

We have a crossing here that acts up if it gets really cold..