I crossed a railroad track on a very dark night in the southern California desert once and because the sign was on the left side of the crossing, I went to the left of the sign (they are supposed to be posted at the right hand side of roads and crossings in the U.S.). Needless to say, my car was stranded on the tracks until a freight train came and took it away. Regardless of the signage snafu, I was fined $1000 for abandoning my car on the tracks as well as losing the car and most of its contents. I felt bad for the engineer, tho, because at first he thought he may have killed someone.
I crossed a railroad track on a very dark night in the southern California desert once and because the sign was on the left side of the crossing, I went to the left of the sign (they are supposed to be posted at the right hand side of roads and crossings in the U.S.). Needless to say, my car was stranded on the tracks until a freight train came and took it away. Regardless of the signage snafu, I was fined $1000 for abandoning my car on the tracks as well as losing the car and most of its contents. I felt bad for the engineer, tho, because at first he thought he may have killed someone.