Third Rail at Grade Crossings

[jackintosh11]

What is done about third rail at grade crossings on metro north? I can't imagine that it runs on the crossing, but how do the trains get power.

[RearOfSignal]

There's a gap in the third rail, the train just picks it up again on the other side. Only a problem if train is a single pair of MU's going very very slowly through the gap.

[Noel Weaver]

I have to wonder if there are any trains with only a single pair of cars anywhere in third rail territory on Metro-North. I have my doubts.
Noel Weaver

[Ridgefielder]

I have to wonder if there are any trains with only a single pair of cars anywhere in third rail territory on Metro-North. I have my doubts.
Noel Weaver

Certainly not in revenue service. Even the New Canaan Dink is usually 5 cars these days.

[DutchRailnut]

Noel I may have been last Foreman M of e to send a single pair of M-3a's on a train that required 6 cars in 1987.
after being questioned by chief my answer was do you think I am the Budd company and I can shit cars ??
nothing else was available.
Then wreck master Ed Whitney had shit fit when he saw it go by at NWP shop