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Re: Grade Crossing Signal Thingy...
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:13:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia wrote:
   What the heck are they called? I know the whole thing is referred to as a grade crossing, but other than crossbucks, I don’t know what to call it.

The red/white bar is called the crossing gate I think. I don’t think there are any fancy/complicated names for the parts.

  
   Anyways, I cooked this up recently:



http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sastrei/Trains/Signals/pict1639.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sastrei/Trains/Signals/pict1640.jpg

It’s going to be part of a larger module with a road bridge and grade crossing. Anyone have any tips on programming the crossing so it works reliably in all light conditions?

-Stefan-

sweet. that’s one of the better solutions i’ve seen for this. i think it was the ltc from georga that had the automated grade crossing at brickfest 2003. from what i remember it was very relyable and worked with magnents and a light sensor. they had there sensors mounted next to the track allthough if built compact enough i think it would work under the rails as well. let me know how it works out. i’ll be needing some automated crossings soon myself. ondrew

I think it was not NGLTC, but rather GFLTC, specifically Robin Werner’s work. I think Robin put up a link to info about it, but I could be wrong. NELUG’s Chris Phillips has one as well, and I think he’s published some info on it too.

Quick searches came up empty but I think harder searches might find the references.

Hope that helps.



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(...) sweet. that's one of the better solutions i've seen for this. i think it was the ltc from georga that had the automated grade crossing at brickfest 2003. from what i remember it was very relyable and worked with magnents and a light sensor. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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