Crossing: I want to sleep.

Light a flare that will last 12 hours.

I believe this crossing mechanism has been repaired, yes.

It's interesting that the gates are up. Non-functioning, power outages, etc. should have gates down blocking the road. The lights and bell might not be on, but the gates should be horizontal to the ground. That's the way they are designed, fail safe mode . We had a situation here where I live where I found one of our crossing signals not functioning but the gates were down blocking the street. I notified BNSF immediately and notified the local police. BNSF got the word out quickly because the very next train that came through flagged the crossing. It's a busy line so every train for the next 3 hours had to do the same. Local police would not do anything. They couldn't tie up two cruisers at a railroad crossing for an indefinite amount of time. I could understand the logic of that. So, Me and another guy parked our vehicles in front of the open lane on opposite sides of the crossing. He had a light bar on his truck and I had an amber strobe on my SUV. We stayed there until they came and fixed the signals. The back-up batteries that kicks in if the power goes off, had died. It threw the singles into fail safe mode for some reason. The juice from the power line was not disrupted, it was a nice evening.

They didn’t wire the Trainz crossings correctly

Malfunctioning active warning devices at RR crossings happen every day! The Texas Dept. of Public Safety in Austin was getting over 200 calls a week from motorists reporting malfunctioning RR crossing warning devices. That was in 1993. The CBS reporter who uncovered the very serious RR crossing safety problems was Roberta Baskin. I called them in 1998 and the number had jumped to over 300. Imagine what it is now. It just keeps getting worse. ASK ER801 what Rail Grinder machines are for.

It is entirely possible the train crew knew this crossing was not working properly. In this case the train crew would have been issued a "stop and protect" order where a crew member must walk off the train, and physically stand in the roadway until the train occupies the crossing so it can pass. It's common, actually.

It seems very foolish that the crewman had to drop those flares on the road. The traffic on the road had clearly stopped, so why bother?

Thanks for the reply. I wonder what happened to the battery back-up? The equipment bungalows have a bank of batteries in case commercial power goes off. Some have a concrete battery box. Here's the thing I am concerned about. If the crossing owner was aware of the power outage and the devices not capable of activating, why didn't they send a Signal Maintainer out to the crossing to manually control it? There is a federal rule mandating that.

No problem. Train stopped at defective gate. Traffic stopped with flairs. Very cool!

Your guess is as good as mine. xP I have to be able to hear the bell to tell.

Yes, the fusees (railroad flares) are left after the train departs. They burn out in a few minutes, and won't harm a car's tires if they get run over. :3

that Big Truck on the other side was Smart and knew the Train was coming so it decided to wait even if the Gates didn't go down!

Surprisingly, the traffic isn’t moving at all when the train was coming up by the crossing. These drivers are smart to wait for the train to move