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Here are BNSFs safety rules for their own employees crossing the tracks. Where are the stop signs at crossings for the rest of the public? There are thousands of cross-buck (yield signs). http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TA/ProgMgt/Grants/Sight_Eng.pdf Are the railroad employees taught that a 65 foot truck requires 16.5 feet of sight distance per mph of train speed and to report sight obstructed crossings? For example a 80 mph Amtrak the truck driver should be able to see the whistle posts 1/4 mile away from 15 feet to 50 feet away from the near rail of the crossing. School buses require 13.5 feet per mph of train speed. http://www.bnsf-ttc.com/bnsftime/EmpSaf062501.pdf Crossings outside yard facilities not equipped with automatic warning devices (lights, gates, bells or any combination thereof): Stop within 50 feet, but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail. Look in both directions and listen for an approaching train or ontrack equipment before proceeding over the crossing.
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