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Check out www.cofoto.camarades.nl , if you haven't already, for a webcam focused on a grade crossing in the Netherlands. It obviously gives Americans and Canadians who don't have the time to make an expensive overseas trip to experience foreign trains. Perhaps it's just that I'm from elsewhere, but Dutch trains, and European trains in general, look pretty neat to me. Most common in this area are the characteristic yellow Dutch short-haul intercity trainsets, which looks sort of like rounded buses. (The train in the site's wallpaper is a good example.) European freight locomotives and cars are especially interesting to me. Obviously another neat thing about this site is that grade crossings have usually been quite rare in Europe, I've been led to believe, and they're getting rarer for safety reasons. So this webcam offers North American railfans a look at European (or at least Dutch) crossing gates. To anyone who's been to the Netherlands, what do the crossing gates there sound like? I've noticed through certain sources that America's ominous clanging bells are not the world standard. I watch some anime (Japanese animation) and have thus learned that Japanese crossing alarms sound sort of like an electronic version of ours (what else would you expect from such a "wired" nation?), and French crossing alarms have an angry metallic buzz which sound more like the traditional American mechanical school bell or fire alarm. (Brrrrring) So what do they sound like in Holland, and for the rest of Europe for that matter? Pretty interesting that so many people would do something so simple so many different ways.
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