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Train #173 (the "Federal Express") suffered a brake failure and crashing into Washington Union Station just days before Dwight D. Eisenhower's first inauguration. the locomotive crashed through into the baggage room below. Due to the imminent flood of travelers, the concourse floor was repaired... leaving the wrecked locomotive below. GG1 #4876 was cut in 2 pieces and later removed. It was returned to service and is now owned by the B&O museum.


(Footnote: train and locomotive numbers pulled from web search, the rest is from memory:)
 
Here's a tricky one:

What Railroad was known as the "The Wobblety, Bobblety, Turnover & Stop" ??
 


It was the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, & Sabine in Texas. It was a pretty sorry railroad so I guess the name was appropriate. :) Gone since 1961
 
Q: Whare and what year was the first set of alternating flashing red warning lights installed at a grade crossing?
 
I'm stumped -
Boston, 1950

EDIT - Truth be told, I had to Google this one. I came up with early 1900s by the Pacific Electric Railway interurban system in the Los Angeles region.
 
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I don't know if my answer is right or not but I did find a question that did require a bit of searching.

As of 2004 two Magnetic Flagman wigwags in the United States remain at main rail lines.
What two states had them and when were they "removed"?

Bonus points - The most common wigwags manufactured by WRRS were known as what??
 
Mike, the first alternating red lights were actually installed in New Jersey in 1913. You were close on the PE. The first lighted wig-wags were installed by the PE in 1907 but they were single lights and steady burning.
 
A: There was one at Casmallia, CA and one at Delhi, CO. The first was removed in 2007 and, I believe, donated to a railroad museum. The second is, as far as I know, still in service, the only remaining wig-wag protecting a Class 1 mainline track. There are several hundred wig-wags still in service but they all protect industrial spurs, low traffic branchlines, or local or regional railroad company lines.

The bonus answer is the Autoflag #5.
 


Q: Sticking to the grade crossing theme, what is the current FRA regulation of how much time a gate has to be in the fully down position before the train enters the crossing?
 
Last time I counted seconds before the train entered the crossings was about 31 seconds. But I guess it depends on speed to.
 
Federal regulations require the gates to be in the full down position at least five seconds before a train enters the crossing. This means gates have to calibrated to the maximum permitted speed on a line and have to be down five seconds before the fastest train could reach the crossing. That's why the gates can seem to be down forever on a fast line when it's a drag freight approaching. :) I'm too tired to think up another question right now so, if anyone has one ready, feel free.
 
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