I am looking for the site of a power operated high platform lifting edge that is somewhere in the NYC area. Can anyone help me?
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Tallguy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:00 pm By the LIRR? Do you know where were the ones they investigated are? Do yoy know what kind of problems?Properly speaking, there would have to be interlocking in place to ensure that a visual display would appear on wayside signals governing movement past such stations whenever the platform extenders were deployed in the extended position, with wide-car movements prohibited when that indication is displayed, and there should probably also be a wide-car detector at a sufficient distance on either side. The light-rail operation between Oceanside and Escondido in California has platform extenders on all platforms for use when the (temporally separated) light-rail operations are in effect. There are derails at each end of the line preventing freight movements onto the branch from the ex-ATSF at Oceanside or the freight yard at Escondido unless the extenders are proven to be in their upright and locked position (but in that case all freight movements are prohibited, not just those with wide loads--complications ensue when some freight movements are permitted but not all). Very maintenance-intensive, but without it it's only a question of time before someone momentarily forgets something and a freight train tears up one or more extenders.