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From: todd@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Hisashi Todd Fujinaka)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Spoofing traffic signals
Message-ID: <200@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 15:03:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 15:03:54 1986
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Reply-To: todd@media-lab.UUCP (Hisashi Todd Fujinaka)
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Keywords: Do you know how illegal it is to mess with RR crossing signals?
Summary: You're talking about FELONIES here.


I just wanted to point out that it is VERY ILLEGAL to mess with RR
crossing signals.  It is done by shorting out the tracks, and there
are several insulated sections of track on each side of the crossing
so the signal can tell which way the train is going, if the train is
stopped near the crossing, etc.  It varies from crossing to crossing,
but the standard crossing does have some RRL (relay to relay logic
:->) to tell which way the train is going.

On the illegality note, remember if you screw it up and people die,
you've just committed MURDER.  Trains are big and fast and kill
people.  Actually, trains don't kill people: people kill people.
Enough of that.

Todd