At least it looks like about 25mph track. A little more exciting on a mainline with 60mph freight.
John Hamilton, post: 385636, member: 640 wrote: I saw many stupid actions by autos at crossings during that job, people going around crossing arms, not even slowing down or looking when approaching, and a lot worse.
In my neighborhood, one of the two ingress/egress methods crossed a set or two of RR tracks. Traffic light just past the tracks. Apparently, there were enough stupid people who would wait for the red light sitting on the tracks, that ingress/egress was blocked off to vehicular traffic.
A couple years ago, a neighbor told a story of a friend of his who got hit by a light rail train. According to the story, the light to cross the tracks was green, but traffic was backed up on the other side. The train engineer was paying attention to something other than the red light meant for the train and hit the car. Neighbors' response? "He got a new car out of it!" My (and the other person listening to the story) response was "It doesn't matter if the light is green to cross the track, YOU DON'T SIT ON TRACKS!"