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[quote user="rrnut282"] The festival could have saved the county a lot of money by calling 1-800-waaaaaa.Maybe BNSF should just close the crossing to avoid inconveniencing them in the future.[/quote]I think some may find it inappropriate to make light of a situation that does have potential safety pitfalls.  When you have a lot of people congregated in one area, it becomes more critical for emergency personel to be able to reach that area if need be.  Relative expediency often is the difference between life and death in such situations, and a train blocking the only crossing into the area could have been a tragic situation.As train lengths increase, the likelyhood of a crossing being blocked also increases.  Since constructing grade crossing separations is an expensive proposition, it may be that the regulators decide to force railroads to limit train length to reduce that statistical likelyhood.One reason I've felt that BNSF's actions toward the DM&E are absurd and hypocritical is that some of the arguments being used by the BNSF/Mayo coalition, e.g. the potential for blocked crossings in Rochester, are the same arguments being used by the RF people against BNSF.  Half dozen of one, but only six of the other, right Mr. Rose?  If the railroads don't start working together to address these types of complaints, and instead use these same complaints in a cutthroat manner against other railroads, the industry as a whole is going to suffer.
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