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[quote user="artschlosser"] There have been several crossings put down in the middle of the night and I have often wondered what laws were broken or government edicts ignored. Never have heard of lawsuits but maybe a google of this topic would yield something. Art [/quote] Art, I have a story about one of those crossing wars, but I have to look it up in my book collection.  There were rules and laws, but possession was often contingent somewhat upon actual placement of track.  I have a newspaper article (in the 1880s) about the milling district of Minneapolis, and the Manitoba RR trying to get their tracks into a mill that was served by the M&StL RR.  The Manitoba had removed the M&StL track, and were installing their own in its place.  The M&StL decided to shove boxcars into where their track had been in order to fortify their claim to the route and to prevent the Manitoba from laying down their track there.  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Of course it’s not easy to shove a cut of cars into a place where the track has been removed.  So they coupled two engines onto the shove, and got a good running start while the cars were still on the rails, hoping that the momentum would carry the string of cars in a straight line on the ground where the track was removed.   <o:p></o:p> As might be expected though, the first truck to hit the ground, plowed in, and turned sideways, which concluded with a giant heap of splintered cars.  Nobody was hurt in the debacle, and later that same day, the dispute was settled at the administrative level.
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