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Other names include railway level crossing, [1] railway crossing (chiefly international), grade crossing or railroad crossing (chiefly American), [2] road through railroad, criss-cross, train crossing, and RXR (abbreviated). There are more than 100,000 level crossings in Europe and more than 200,000 in North America.
May 25, 2013 – BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad freight trains collide at Rockview interlocking near Chaffee, Missouri. The BNSF train was proceeding through the crossing when the UP train struck the 12th car behind the BNSF locomotives, derailing 13 cars of the BNSF train and two locomotives and 11 cars of the UP train.
Some level crossings that are located close to intersections with traffic lights program the signals with a preemption sequence so when the approaching train trips the track circuit, it not only activates the crossing signals, but also changes the traffic lights facing the crossing to green, to clear any traffic that may be queued on the ...
The exposure index at these three crossings was already high more than a decade ago when the N.C. Department of Transportation and the City of Durham studied 18 crossings along the N.C. Railroad ...
The Port of Benton, which owns and operates the airport, is rebuilding the railroad crossing at Airport Way the week of Oct. 4-7. The Saint Street crossing will be rebuilt Oct. 18-21.
The Gilchrest Road crossing accident was a grade crossing incident that occurred on March 24, 1972, in the town of Clarkstown, New York, between the hamlets of Valley Cottage and Congers, roughly 25 miles (40 km) northwest of New York City. Five students from Valley Cottage were killed, and 44 others were injured.
Operation Lifesaver is a 501(c)(3) educational organization in the United States dedicated to promoting safety at railroad grade crossings and railroad rights-of-way. Operation Lifesaver is the largest rail safety education organization in the United States. [1] It was founded by the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1970s. [2]