12-02-2017, 11:16 PM
(12-02-2017, 10:00 PM)Canard Wrote: Activation was about 7-10 seconds - the arms didn't come down. I had just pushed record on my phone but they stopped, otherwise I would have had a video of it.
I would not recommend performing your proposed experiment.
No, I’m not planning to mess around with railway infrastructure in that fashion. If I did, I would pick some out-of-the-way spur that definitely does not have train controls signals where there would be no traffic, rail or road, to confuse, and probably no control room that might wonder where the ghost train is appearing from. For example, the Waterloo Spur before the LRT construction began.
Do you happen to know if the arms come down for the freight when it goes through? I’m interested that it was several seconds. I can’t see how the horse theory could give several seconds of contact unless they stopped on the tracks standing just so.