From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
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   > 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   
      
   Amazing picture!!!  You can just imagine stay dogs stepping on the third   
   rail.   
      
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