Railroad crossing gates delayed near Paul Creek, York County SC
TrafficA train crew reported that railroad crossing gates near Paul Creek failed to activate until the train was about 8 to 10 cars away. The gates usually come down well before that point. Vehicles were stopped on the crossing while the gates remained up, causing concern for safety. The late gate activation was reported to the signal supervisor for investigation.
Audio|Source: Charlotte Area NS/CSX Rail
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Transcript:
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Yeah, that crossing back there near Paul Creek, the old Dowd Road.
00:07
How fast were you going on the approach there when it didn't, would you notice it wasn't activating it should add over? Okay, okay, I'll just go to Channel 2 and talk you about it, you don't mind.
00:17
All right, Channel 2.
00:19
All right, Channel 2.
00:20
Just bear in Channel 2.
00:23
Go ahead, over.
00:24
Yeah, when I come around at the curve, I was saying, we noticed the car sitting on the road crosses.
00:30
It was kind of unusual, but, you know, it was not, I let up to get. When I come around there,
00:35
and I see how fast, we're out there still sitting there and we got a little closer, I'll probably run 40 miles an hour, and I just went ahead and got full service and come to a stop or just slowed down.
00:45
And then as they got closer,
00:48
we noticed the game still wasn't down.
00:50
And I don't know. how far was then. It was kind of odd for them not to be down.
00:55
And then we actually got maybe,
00:58
I don't know, maybe eight 10 cars away before they actually come down.
01:02
And we were moving.
01:03
We were moving the whole time.
01:06
You were moving the whole time, you noticed the car was in the crossing,
01:14
going about 40 there, and you said the gates should have been down at that point, and then when you got about 8 to 10 cars out,
01:23
still moving, gates still weren't down, and then...
01:27
bringing right to cars and take cars out before they came down on. That is correct. And I was back said, and we go there, we go there five days a week,
01:36
and then our gates come down that lead, that is highly unusual, because by the time
01:42
by the time I get to that straight track, those gates are down, and like I said, we were wondering what was going on, and they actually didn't come down, so we've got an eight car, eight 10 of cars away from them. So just played activation, and you know, that's the reason why I reported it.
01:56
Gotcha. And that car you noticed when he first came around the corner, was it moving or was it stopped there? Oh, they all just stopped on the crossing. So, you know, they kept going on, but we were under what was going on.
02:07
When we called the gauge, and we got a little closer, we realized the gates wouldn't even down.
02:12
And so that's the reason why we reported. It just,
02:14
like you said, we go there five days a week and that was just unusual. That's the reason why we called it.
02:20
Gotcha. All right, I got the signal supervisor on the phone asking questions. Usually they ask you a bunch of questions and I got a late activation like that. All right, thank you. Yes, sir. Appreciate it.
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York County, SC
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