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[quote user="tree68"] [quote]How do you do that without intending to?[/quote]By drawing the fine line between intentially parking the train across the crossing (ie, being held out of a receiving yard, etc), and having it left there as the result of switching.  Doesn't change the end result....We encounter the same thing here at work, when CSX is doubling (tripling, quadrupling...) out trains.  Sometimes they have three crossings blocked while they make the air, etc.[/quote]I agree that it does not change the end result.  And it does not excuse running the stop sign.  My point was only about the obfuscation of having it both ways by pretending that blocked crossings are unintentional.  In some cases, they could be unintentional or even an act of God, but that cannot be the case with switching operations. There is nothing new about trains blocking crossings, and even the laws that forbid it have a time period that allows limited blocking.  But if the town has multiple crossings routinely blocked for over an hour at a time, and no legal recourse, then they have a problem that needs to be fixed; and they should not let the railroad blow smoke up their nose by claiming that the blockages are unintentional.
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