Discussion relating to the operations of MTA MetroNorth Railroad including west of Hudson operations and discussion of CtDOT sponsored rail operations such as Shore Line East and the Springfield to New Haven Hartford Line

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  by Trainer
 
As a Danbury local I have seen several trains "Stop and Warn" on Triangle Street, Shelter Rock Road, and East Liberty Street. However, every time I have seen it happen (in traffic), the lights and gates have always operated properly. If the problem is randomly intermitent, I can understand why it is so frustrating to pin down.
  by FL9AC
 
Trainer wrote:As a Danbury local I have seen several trains "Stop and Warn" on Triangle Street, Shelter Rock Road, and East Liberty Street. However, every time I have seen it happen (in traffic), the lights and gates have always operated properly. If the problem is randomly intermitent, I can understand why it is so frustrating to pin down.
Gates/flashers do not activate until we pull up to crossing on island circuit and it's been that way for weeks now. Maybe you saw train stopped at crossing after warning devices were activated but they are not working as intended.

Maintainers were out at South Street in Bethel yesterday and when I came through SB on my deadhead Greenwood, South Street, and Taylor Ave warning devices were already activated although stop and warns still in effect. I'm hopeful these will be lifted fairly soon. Also Depot and Portland Ave in Branchville are currently lifted so they are making progress. It's frustrating to everyone involved I'm sure.
  by Trainer
 
Kinda scary this morning. Gates at the Shelter Rock Road went down, then went up. School bus going to Shelter Rock Elementary started to go, then thought better, and backed up when she saw the train coming. Gates finally went down again, train did Stop and Warn, all is well. But... damn.
  by FL9AC
 
Weird I had no issues with crossing at Shelter Rock gates came down SB as intended and stayed down throughout entire stop and warn but Northbound crossing must be actuated with the island circuit still. Guess that's why there's still stop and warns throughout Danbury and Bethel :wink:
  by TCurtin
 
Update? Are they still fussing, attempting to get this installation to work correctly? if so, I would certainly hope they have called in some higher level of expertise by now.
  by DutchRailnut
 
still 8 stop and warns, CDOT is rebuilding the crossings itself with new ties, new rubber pads and better drainage. .
  by theozno
 
Sent an mta an e-mail with my suggestions when service returns had a nice response it was being put into consideration... Shuttles to Stamford where a lot of turn around can be for passengers from Danbury Branch. Use the shuttles end point to connect to new Caanan trains offering semi express thru trains instead of having to connect going local to rye and express in from there track 3/5 combo (2/4 outbound) this would also allow more frequent service from Sono to Stamford to relieve congestion on upper NHV trains. Will this ever happen? Probably not.
  by DutchRailnut
 
and as usual you post has nothing to do with topic ?? ADS ??
  by RearOfSignal
 
theozno wrote:Sent an mta an e-mail with my suggestions when service returns had a nice response it was being put into consideration... Shuttles to Stamford where a lot of turn around can be for passengers from Danbury Branch. Use the shuttles end point to connect to new Caanan trains offering semi express thru trains instead of having to connect going local to rye and express in from there track 3/5 combo (2/4 outbound) this would also allow more frequent service from Sono to Stamford to relieve congestion on upper NHV trains. Will this ever happen? Probably not.
Maybe if you explained it better, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
  by DutchRailnut
 
no please, don't have him do that, not in this topic.
  by runningwithscalpels
 
Jesus, on that note, let's have Waterbury directs...

If it made sense to do it, they would have done it already.
  by TCurtin
 
DutchRailnut wrote:still 8 stop and warns, CDOT is rebuilding the crossings itself with new ties, new rubber pads and better drainage. .
I hope to hell there's some business left on the branch by the time they get all this fixed. You can't annul so many trains for such a long period without passengers finding alternatives, then they may not come back. Also, as I mentioned on this forum at least once before, I hope some heads roll wherever the parties responsible for this very poor design and/or installation job (I suspect the problem is in design, those thongs most commonly are) turn out to be .
  by DutchRailnut
 
Lets stop with heads rolling blah blah blah.
problem lies with state funding, by law the bid goes to cheapest bidder with a viable plan.
We all know you get what you pay for, cheap is not always better.
CDOT went with cheap bidder and as usual now will spend millions correcting the deficiencies.
Take politics out of railroading and maybe we can make place run, its not just a matter of letting someone's head roll.
  by runningwithscalpels
 
Seems to be the CDOT way - eff it up the first time, spend lots of money fixing it the 2nd time!
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