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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Really - you can lift a modern railroad crossing gate? Why?
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Probably so an emergency vehicle can get through in those rare instances that the gate malfunctions and doesn't go up after the train passes... or if it's down even though a train is several hundred yards away... stopped.
One of our resident railroaders can probably give the real reason if I'm off the mark... someone please summon them. Jolly A. is one of them.