Railroad crossing gates malfunction in Dodge County, Dodge County WI
TrafficRailroad crossing gates at two locations in Dodge County malfunctioned by repeatedly rising and lowering instead of staying down as trains passed, creating a safety concern.
Audio|Source: Butler, WI Regional Railroads / NOAA KEC60 WX Alert
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Transcript:
00:00
8.7.2, you said the crossing there, the gate arms kept going up and down instead of staying down.
00:11
Okay, Roger, that dispenser. 87.2,
00:14
87.3,
00:16
the crossing protection kept going up and down and continued.
00:20
We were probably about a mile and a half over the crossings and they were still doing it.
00:27
And I will get it reported, over.
00:29
All right, if you can, can you get us the lineup, main track, Milwaukee 1, Tour de Adams, back on the main track, number two, over?
00:37
Here comes Lightover.
00:39
Hi very good, good location. One to Adam, and Adam's back to do it. Thank you all.
00:48
54-45,
00:50
well, I'm sorry.
01:06
4173 north my post one of five north six thousand
01:08
During the time I want to crawl and then sometimes it's the side side of the Japanese bullet train.
01:31
3.4.1. Okay, take it west for the fine.
01:39
By pass.
01:45
UP signal operation to UP1418. Come in over.
01:50
Yeah, this is 1418 over.
01:54
There's you guys, dispatcher calls and said you guys had an issue with one of the crossings there at 87.2 on the Milwaukee.
02:01
What was going on there with the crossing, over?
02:03
As we were trying to proceed through the crossing, the gates would go up, back down, up,
02:08
and they just wouldn't stay down.
02:12
Okay, did it continue to do that as you went through the crossing there then, over?
02:17
That is correct, and it's both crossings, 87.2 and the next one north of 887.3.
02:27
Oh, so there were actually two crossings that were doing this? Over?
02:33
That is correct.
02:36
Yeah, okay.
02:38
And did you apply any rule 6.23.2 on that before you proceed it, so you're over?
02:50
After that, did you notice any damage or possible handle is or anything to the crossing devices there, over?
02:56
No, I didn't look like it just looked like it was an electrical malfunction.
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