Why won't they just fix the damn road? How many people have to die to get a road commissioner to fix one damn RR intersection so buses and trailer don't get high centered on it?

This exact intersection, the Main Street crossing, had 17 crashes, crashes in 2003 and 1983 involved fatalities, from 1975 through 2016

This makes it tied for 2nd of railroad intersections in Mississippi's Harrison County in that time frame, having train collisions according to Federal Railroad Administration data.

Now it has 4 more dead.

12 of those crashes happened from the 1970s through the '90s. Five involved vehicles that were stalled or otherwise stopped on the tracks.

The NTSB does not investigate all collisions involving trains. However, the fact that just two months ago a similar, non-fatal crash occurred at the same rail crossing led the agency to launch an investigation, NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said.

Now,  all trains are stopping at the Main Street crossing before proceeding, because of damage to the northbound crossing bar and safety lights.

The single track is the CSX mainline along the Gulf Coast, passing through densely populated areas of southern Mississippi. Federal Railroad Agency records show 10 trains a day typically use the track, with a maximum speed of 45 mph.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bus-train-crash-there-were-16-accidents-at-mississippi-train-crossing-over-4-decades/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/us/urgent-biloxi-mississippi-bus-train-crash/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/cobiloxi/
https://www.biloxi.ms.us/trainbus/
http://www.statesman.com/news/breaking-news/new-details-killed-biloxi-crash-confirmed-austin-area-residents/QtJyn9y9YOifmSLASTTcUM/

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a couple abandoned mining towns had narrow gauge railroads, and rumor has it that one of the narrow gauge locomotives was still at one of the ghost towns.

After closing the mining towns and the trains that served them, a locomotive was left parked on the tracks alongside Gypsum creek. Duane Ericson located the locomotive on its side in the creekbed where the grade had washed out.

http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=2948&forum_id=17&jump_to=50813#p50813

That may not have been the only, or the original, locomotive used at Gypsum. Accounts vary, but one of Gypsum’s locomotives may be at the bottom of Milbanke Sound in British Columbia.

 The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s wreck tables say that 2000 tons of gypsum and “a locomotive for Tacoma” (possibly being sent out for repairs) were on board the Alaska Barge Co’s James Drummond, southbound from Gypsum, when she ran aground and sank in October of 1914.
https://saveitforparts.wordpress.com/projects/lesser-known-and-obscure-railroads-of-alaska/

Another one was

and here is what it looked like when it was in use

http://ronsimpson.blogspot.com/2010/12/ch-26-pt-2-arrival-at-kennecott.html

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Guess what? Skip the first minute (like always). Then wow... for no apparent reason, some cars way back behind the engine derail... and the really really long oil train hits them, and it's a mess

thanks Steve!

and here is what happens when an oil train derails

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