Railroad Crossing Major Malfunction Nightmare

This is a video I made at the West Broward Blvd railroad crossing in Fort Lauderdale Florida on the Florida East Coast Railroad at a very busy crossing that is malfunctioning and causing a traffic nightmare for vehicles stopping and getting stuck between crossing gates on the tracks and motorist panicking to get off the tracks thinking they will get hit by a train.

[KevinPlaysGuitar]

Too many ghost trains in that city. Those crossing gates are trolls. lol

[edchapman]

Americas high speed bullet train.
so quick you cant see it

[creativeminecrafter]

I'd say there's something malfunctioning in the relay case. Probably the sensor wiring.

[realdwaynet]

I don't know why but I really laughed hard at this video.  I don't know what was funnier: the gates going down every minute or the facial expressions of the host!  Awesome job!

[Taekehn]

"They're working out! Looks like I need to, too!" Lmao

[PhantomTrains]

I love it. A few months ago, I was in downtown Pensacola, Florida ... right after a train passed, the gates went up, traffic starting going, then, they went back down. Ended up hitting a van. But your video is way better. Love the videos brother!

[Josem]

They need to fix this a.s.a.p because what if there was a train coming and the crossings were up and did not go down .The cars are in hot water

[TimothyRogersRailfanning]

This video is brought to you by: GhostRail, helping you get to your destination quickly and causing chaos at the crossings since 1977 😂😂😂

[GabryJ]

Italian Railways are different from US ones, but I believe that all railways have something in common. Some years ago, we had on a main line an oxidised track circuit which was sending false informations about its status (it was thinking it had a train on for one minute and then free himself, without an actual train on him, but was still working efficiently when a train was on him, so that the rail traffic was still safe). This track circuit was the trigger point for a Level Crossing, so that everytime the track circuit became occupied, the level crossing was closing, and when the track circuit was free, it was opening. That caused exactly the same behaviour seen in the video until the maintenance crew fixed the broken track circuit.
Luckily enough, the street the level crossing was onto didn't have so much traffic, so the discomfort was really small.

[AlanMcPhearson]

Man that is a nightmare hope they fix it by now

[fleek]

I actually like the commentary on this.

[ThunderboltFan]

I have never seen a canteliver that big in my life

[Hawqis]

The Atlanta Braves must have been playing that day. The gates are doing the tomahawk chop and the gates must be fans of the Braves.

[BCSchmerker]

+Millenniumforce *To what cause(s) were the false triggerings eventually traced?* This kind of malfunction burns out gate motors.

Time 11:28 The largest vehicle I'd want to drive around _this_ grade crossing would be a Harley-Davidson® FLTR 107 - between tracks 1 and 2, clearance enough for wide freights in opposite directions. (Between Tracks 2 and 3 is suicide; wide loads pass each other by inches, leaving nowhere to go but down and sometimes not even _that_ escape. :-S ) With my issue Ford, I'd be stopping short, wigwags or no wigwags - too much distance across the tracks to gauge traffic on the far side.

[dutchrailroadcrossings]

This is something you won't see in the Netherlands, even though we do have lots of malfunctions. Although most malfunctions in The Netherlands are on busy railroad crossings, But that doesn't say that they aren't annoying. Sadly I have never seen a malfunction. I would love to actually see them myself.

[kimberleytui]

Hahahahahahaha! How do you stop the ringing in the head? Lol

[Zalaniar]

There are some tracks on my way home from work that traffic backs up onto a lot. I always stop before them even though it gives time for other cars to cut in front of me because I know what happens to idiots like the cars in the videos. One time I was stopped before the tracks and a train came and it was awesome because I got a very clear reward for not being an idiot.

[kylesnider]

Idk why but this was strangely satisfying to watch...

[kathrynannwattsfabofkitt]

That would be perfect for America's Funniest Home Videos!

[kdmq]

Could be a malfunctioning shunt at the end of the approach circuit causing the impedance of the rails to change even when there's no train.