From: j.halpenny@rogers.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 1:05:44 PM UTC-5, damdu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > 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-gauge   
   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   
      
   One of these lines had the third rail protected by the occasional sign with a   
   lightning bolt, skull and crossbones, and the words "Danger de Mort"  (Danger   
   of death).   
      
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