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Its the camera

Just LED's being weird on camera.

Texas transportation museum, San antonio texas

Hope we can talk I'm signal maintainer too

Not a priority at the moment. Currently about 30 main lights are needed for the new crossing installs before I can worry about the side cantilever lights.

Those mirrors are too far gone for any cleaning to help. Some of the red lenses had black paint on them and the mirrors reflective material was separating from the plastic.

Eventually yes. I have to focus on new crossing and wayside installations at the moment. By Christmas time I will be able to record more of the train.

That got pulled up a good 2 years ago. I think I still have the video up on the last time it operated.

Can you do the backyard rail road crossing the series again?

I can’t as those signals are no longer there.

The signals are operating on relay logic. The PMD-2 is jumpered to a remote switch at the moment. I might be converting the track circuit to either relay logic or short approach detector circuits. The track circuits have yet to be terminated but the wires have already been ran to where they are being terminated. They should be by January once the wayside signal system gets installed.

@@RailroadSignsandSignals I have a lot of PMD2s, very dependable, easy to work on but card replacement is pricey these days! I have a lot of flasher controls on relay logic but on the newer installs, SSCCIIIA are popular, that or XLC modules along with a VLG module! I have some terminated by NBS or DHWS

I have the double hard wire shunts installed and not the narrow band shunts as I don’t have any other track circuits intercepting my approahes and it is all jointed rail. My main concern is the length of the approaches. With less than 250 feet on either approach and the train speed never exceeding 5 MPH I don’t think it will be very reliable to have as a track circuit here. As for replacement cards that is no problem for me. For every card I have within the unit there is an extra one on standby. Have a workshop where I can fix the damaged boards as the backup ones are in use and then the repaired cards are placed as standby ones for the future. At this point in time it is the matter of terminating the jointed rails and figuring out what track circuit system and units will be most reliable for me to use.

@@RailroadSignsandSignals understandable! If there isn’t any overlapping circuits, a HWS or DHWS is the way to go! 250ft approach at max speed of 5 mph, do you have the joints bonded or double bonded? We have main and stby side’s working but when 1 card goes bad we either have to find a card or send it in for repair which takes some time and I know it isn’t cheap based on the RMAs I send in

Since everything I need to work on my crossings comes out of my own pocket I am planning on terminating single bond wires at each joint. If I have issues with them breaking often enough then I will invest in double bonded joints. I have had to teach myself from the ground up on how to wire everything up. Schematics, manuals, catalogs, old books, talking to retired maintainers and any railroad information I could get my hands on significantly helped in my understanding of maintaining signals of various kinds. I have to engineer schematics and layout plans after I have bought enough parts to start another installation, learn how to install operate and maintain the parts I will be using, schedule and plan installations, do the labor of digging and setting foundations and signals all by hand, wire and set up cabinets as well as maintaining what I have already installed. I do have the occasional volunteer that assists me but for the most part I have to do everything on my own. It has been one hell of an after work hobby for me but hopefully one day I will be working for a railroad company doing this.

No clue. I don’t really pay attention to LED manufacturers.

I edited the video a lot but the train does not make a loop as the property is not wide enough to do so. It has to go back and forth.

No amtrak for you mine.

I am installing 1 1/4 pipe to the signal for my AL-70 project. You can use whatever size you may want as long as the wires you run have enough space but the larger the conduit the easier it is to pull wire through. The railroad generally uses 4 inch conduit or rarely 3 inch for some installs.

As long as a train has at least one pair of wheels and a solid axel it will activate the crossings. It is not by weight but by shunting the 2 rails.

@ does it have those things on the diesel?

⁠@@rodgodx345yeah, any rail car or engine has them.

@@Indianarailproductions oh okay

So this is prove the railroad crossing works and it was a success!

That signal will remain incandescent for a long time. Even if I received more LED modules I have more crossings with greater priorities now that I have 4 separate crossing setups in the works with 2 more on the way.

@RailroadSignsandSignals Oh ok

One will naturally want to fix the issue instead of sending another person out to fix the issue, especially if they don’t know that they are making it harder for the one who has to come out and look at it. I do respect that they made a decision to try and fix the issue but they didn’t take into consideration that I have to see the problem actively happening in order to diagnose and fix the problem.

P2?

@ the horn on the locomotive?

@caltrain_acefoamer907 as far as I know, everything is original on that train. I don’t deal with trains so I am not knowledgeable about them.

During day time cause the camera do that at these Railroad crossings on the streets and main highways that has LED's flashing lights

This is caused by LED modules operating on AC current. The shutter speed just about matches the LEDs flickering which is not present when viewed in person. I have done a video on this too.

the lights are flashing its the stupid camera itself making it look like its fade in and out.

Yes.

@RailroadSignsandSignals ah ok that's what I thought I was not for sure

I always thought that it was Indiana lol

@@dancline2143 lol

@@dancline2143I wish it was lol, our railroad museums aren’t the greatest

It was the annual Halloween event.

That project is still in the works. I cannot promise anything but hopefully by Christmas time I will have that signal up and running.