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I am interested in the difficult problems posed by grade crossings, and have done a lot of research on the topic, including communication with the MUTCD, FRA, OL, State Highway Patrol, railroad companies, and local police.   So when a crossing crash occurs, I naturally want to know how it happened.  This Texas accident, while certainly tragic, is also unusually interesting on so many levels. But asking questions about how these things happen seems to make some people very defensive because they believe that questioning the cause is somehow letting the perpetrator escape blame.  Strangely enough, this attitude is not shared by the official authorities such as the NTSB.  They ask questions just like I do.  The only difference is that when I ask the same questions that the NTSB asks, the thread gets locked. That Nevada Amtrak crash thread was locked twice, and on both occasions I was able to persuade the moderators to unlock it because it had not violated any rules.  Meanwhile, the NTSB has been asking questions about that crash for 1½ years, and they are still not finished.  So I don’t think it is a cut and dried as some people want it to be.
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