Fixing TTM Loop Road Railroad Crossing Malfunction Plus Riding the Train

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:04]It hasn't even been a full 24 hours since I installed the track circuits and it appears that they are already malfunctioning.

[00:00:12]We had a very bad storm early this morning, a lot of lightning and what follows with that is thunder, really loud, and uh couldn't get out to responding to this problem until now that there is uh no chance of lightning in the area.

[00:00:32]Because I thought this was a track circuit problem, I uh did not respond to this right away because obviously working with lightning and metal, aka the the train tracks all along here, is not very safe. So, don't know if the tracks got struck by lightning and it blew the arresters, that's what's causing these to stay down, but there is some sort of problem that is fail-safe that has failed and is keeping the gates down. And that is known as fail-safe.

[00:01:07]Anytime a component, a critical component, is not working, it activates the system to the most restrictive position. And in this case, the gates both gates are down and the lights are flashing.

[00:01:23]>> [music] >> And that is a good indication of a track circuit failure.

[00:01:32]I'm at the beginning of the approach.

[00:01:36]And this here is called a shunt.

[00:01:39]Without this, the uh system does not work.

[00:01:45]And I'm not really going to go into all the operations of this or even anything on the inside, all that's proprietary, but the uh shunt out here, I just checked it, it's working properly, but it is not receiving the signal that the uh circuit would be receiving if it was working properly. So, I'm going to have either a bonding issue or a track shunt issue uh where somewhere somehow I'm getting a connection between both rails on one of the uh ties.

[00:02:22]Which is pretty common in uh and just after rainy weather.

[00:02:28]All right, I went and fixed the problem.

[00:02:31]Now, when I install the jumper that activate the signals.

[00:02:47]And these gates have a minimum activation time.

[00:02:51]Which is right around the time it takes for the gates to both go all the way down.

[00:03:01]So, right about now.

[00:03:03]So, if I lift that jumper the gates will go back up.

[00:03:11]And that is the shunt test.

[00:03:19]And that problem is fixed.

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