MILW-RODR:
Why is something like this even being posted? And under prototype info forum? This is kind of indignent.
Okay, I'll bite. Define, "Indignent."
A year or so before you joined the Forums I suggested that a modeler could make a model rubber-wheeler out of tinfoil and cracker crumbs and arrange a typical 'drove around the gates' collision. Of course, I was thinking of the 'train hit the car' variety, not the 'drove into the side of a clearly visible train' variant we're discussing here.
Sign seen on the back of a military bus in Japan in the 1960s:
Trains have both might and right. Stop at all railroad crossings.
The law said, "Stop." Failing to do so could slim down your wallet. Having a wrong encounter with a train would lay you open to being sued by every person inconvenienced by the delay you caused, which could easily lay you open to upward of a thousand lawsuits. Even if there wasn't a train present, the police were omnipresent.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)