General Electric Company

Augustus Brown

Andrew Lawrence Ruggiero

Brandi Elizabeth Wood

Wallace Martindell Catanach, Iii

Michael Voth

Samuel Robert Mollet

Anthony F Colucci

An apparatus is provided for sensing movement of a point rail away from a stock rail by a selected distance, by closing a switch to shunt a track circuit, with means for resetting the apparatus to open the switch only after manual resetting of the point rail.

Non-powered trailed switch detector for railroad track switching equipment

An apparatus for sensing movement of a point rail away from a stock rail by a selected distance, by closing a switch to shunt a track circuit. Manual resetting of the point rail is required to reset the apparatus to open the switch.

A system ( ) and method for remotely monitoring the operating status of railroad grade crossing warning equipment. A sensor ( ) generates a signal ( ) responsive to the operation of a grade crossing annunciator ( ). In one embodiment, the annunciator may be a bell or speaker horn ( ) and the sensor may be an accelerometer ( ) mechanically coupled to the bell. A wayside controller ( ) uses the signal as input for developing information ( ) indicative of the operating status of the annunciator. A communications link ( ) transmits the information to a location remote from the grade crossing. A system controller ( ) located at the remote location may diagnose the information to direct a maintenance center ( ) and/or operations center ( ) in response to an indication of degraded performance of the annunciator. The communications link may include the Internet and may be used for two-way communication between the remote location and the grade crossing location ( ).

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