From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:47:11 -0500, "conklin"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >news:b23vdahsap2842hokhr4197l9m0in7eu4s@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:33:40 +0000, Charles Ellson    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>>The CTA has numerous grade crossings with overrunning BARE (no top   
   >>>>cover) third rail.  The are on the Pink (ex Douglass Park), Brown   
   >>>>(Ravenswood), Yellow (Skokie) and Purple (EVanston) lines.  The   
   >>>>ex-Southern Region in England has numerous grade crossings with   
   >>>>overrunning third rail.   
   >>>>   
   >>>You can't just walk up to it (the SR version or similar elsewhere in   
   >>>ENG), there is usually an anti-trespass device made of multiple   
   >>>sections of angle-cut wood making it hard to walk away from a   
   >>>road/footpath toward the third rail :-   
   >>   
   >> In contrast the French still have a couple of Metre gauge third rail   
   >> lines in some mountanous areas .  Much of the routes are unfenced and   
   >> at times can almost be covered with snow even though the live rail is   
   >> relatively high.  This how they handle a crossing.   
   >> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Meter-gaug   
   _railway_with_third_rail_in_Les_Praz-de-Chamonix,_France.jpg   
   >> Somewhere on the net there used to a pic of an electrified siding that   
   >> the photographer almost tripped over as it was buried in yard deep   
   >> undergrowth reached with no fencing at all.   
   >>   
   >> G.Harman   
   >   
   >Amazing picture!!!  You can just imagine stay dogs stepping on the third   
   >rail.   
   >   
   Traditionally they are found with their jaws firmly clamped round the   
   live rail after retaliating to the shock received by their wagging   
   tail.   
      
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