Yellow (!) "Advance Warning" Road Grade Crossing Flashing Signal

[mudchicken]

Would be curious to know who maintains? (railroad or road agency? ... not exactly common to see WCH mast that far from crossing or in a standard inventory for road agency)

[rdamon]

I have seen this before with the standard round (RXR) sign with an Amber flashing light that was activated with the grade crossing signals, but never a setup like that.

Thanks for sharing.

[Randy Stahl]

I think advance warning is a great idea, Id like to see it implemented everywhere there are highway speeds above 40 mph. I've just seen too many bad things.....

 

Randy

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48838227@N02/13256035115/

Just happened to see this while riding along with a co-worker one day recently.  I've never heard of or seen anything like it before.  As you can see, the lenses are yellow.  I haven't seen it operate yet, but I expect that the lights will flash alternately, same as the red ones at the signals right at the grade crossing. 

It's needed because the crossing itself is not visible from this point - the crossing is about 100 yds. southwest, further down a fairly steep grade, and around a set of sharp 'S'-curves, as shown in the next 2 photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48838227@N02/13256361004/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48838227@N02/13256160053/

The location is Brown['s] Hill Road (T-592), leading to the Alpine Mountain [  ] ski area in the Analomink (or Parkside) area of Paradise Twp., Monroe Co., PA, about 1/4 mile north of SR 191, at about these Lat./ Long. coords.: N 41 6.392' W 75 14.892'    

The owner of the track is now the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority (PNRRA - see http://pnrra.org/ ), formerly the Lackawanna County Rail Authority (LCRA), and the operating railroad is the Delaware-Lackawanna RR (DLRR) - http://www.gvtrail.com/dl.php or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%E2%80%93Lackawanna_Railroad , which comes down this way only 2 -3 times a week, by my hearing and rare observations.  The US DOT - FRA - AAR Crossing ID No. is 264-047A, but this additional 'active warning device' does not seem to be shown or reflected in the database listing for the crossing.   

- Paul North.