Western Railroad Discussion > Trapped at xing, they're holding up the railroad!

Guy in silver car behind trailer got himself stuck in a sticky situation, 
At beginning of video you can barely hear him Honking at the truck in front of him, who had a red light. He couldn't reverse because the gate was directly behind his car, so he was sitting right on the track.
Then the engineer honks at him or at everyone to do something!
The crew was switching and only needed to move ahead a little to clear a switch to be thrown, then reverse back to Corona yard.
I mistakenly thought I was going to catch the Elsinore local crossing over the road, but that didn't happen.
PLEASE TRY TO IGNORE MY SILLY ON CAMERA COMMENTS.
Corona, Calif, 6th St and Elsinore branch crossing, A few months ago.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/25 21:09 by RailRat.

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Here's a map, Blue X is where I was, Blue curved line is where silver car and trailer/truck were.
Red line is where BNSF engines were.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

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Gates break, the people who get themselves into this type of predicament need to get that in their heads. I little scratched paint is a whole lot better than a demolished car, and your life.
Flame on.

Couldn't agree more. I marvel at mindset that gets you first of caught in between gates, the flashers and warnings significant preceed the gate drop, then to add to the dumbness (or numbness?) they allow themselves to remain trapped when they could easily drive through.

Oh, Lordy.  Is it the fluoride in the water that's dumbing us down?

;-)
 

jkh2cpu Wrote:
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> Oh, Lordy.  Is it the fluoride in the water
> that's dumbing us down?

> ;-)

Fluoride in the water is so 2000s, now its the facebook "health experts" claiming its the vaccines causing us to lose a few IQ points 🤣🤣

Seems to be room between the flatbed and the curb.

Since we do not see the start of the sequence, I am going to guess that this is actually a signal configuration gotcha.

Both the truck pulling the trailer and the car were WB on E 6th St and turning left onto El Camino Ave. 
There is a signal light controlling the left turn lane on E 6th St, right before the railroad crossing. 
There is a SEPARATELY timed/controlled signal on the transition road from E 6th St to El Camino Ave BEFORE crossing EB E 6th St.

The sequence of events that most likely occured is this:

• Green light to proceed left from WB E 6th St to the transition road.
• Red light on the transistion road from WB E 6th St before crossing the EB E 6th St.
• Train approaches and triggers the crossing.
• All signals change to red.
• Once the timed all-red signals complete, the signal on the transition road from WB E 6th St before crossing EB E 6th St finally turns green.

The yellow arrow points to the railroad crossing signal.

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All parties are still stuck there, waiting for a resolution.  Like the dumb blonde that was stuck on the escalator for four hours when the electricity went off.   8>)

mapboy