I love railroads but they must be delusional. Read.

http://pahomepage.com/search-fulltext?nxd_id=155445

wow...

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No lights or automated equipment to maintain, as its used so infrequently... so what up with that Andy Muller... taking the ConRail approach I guess

Well, that is just crazy talk. ...the company is trying to extort extra income, only the truly uninformed would sign such an agreement. It would almost certainly fail a court challenge. The property owner(s) is allowing the RR an easement for their ROW and the RR has an obligation to not impede access to the property, be it for emergency vehicles or private access.....if anything, the owners should be charging the RR for the privilege of traversing their land. (also not likely to win in court but illustrative of how silly it is) And, said property owners have a "grandfathered in" sort of arrangement with the RR...neither party can just go and change it.

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This does not surprise me at all. Alot of railroads require insurance on private crossings, as well as making said party maintain them. You can read CSX's policy on this right on there website.