Use Caution in Mississippi

Johno02 wrote:
Railroads are responsible for their train tracks, and mot for any roads crossing them. If you want to build a crossing, go right ahead, but the grade yo to it and off the other side is your problem. And when the railroad adds bassast and raised the tracks, they have no responsibility to raise your road to match. Their track, your road. Guess who loses?

While this may be true for some railroads, it is not true for all railroads. Here in Colorado, and specifically Fort Collins CO, there has been a continual improvement project, since the city has many railroad crossings. One in particular, on the south end of the city, had a notorious "dip" in the road approach to the track from one direction. This was improved and smoothed out by the railroad, in this case, Burlington Northern. They closed the road for several days and improved the approaches to the crossing, approximately 10 feet on either side of the actual tracks. They, and other railroads (Union Pacific and Great Western) have also done improvements to crossings with similar issues. In all cases, it's been approximately 10 feet on either side of the actual rails. In these cases the railroads were fully responsible for the improvements to the crossings.

The railroads were here before the city was. There's been an on-going dialogue about what to do about the railroads here for as long as I can remember. However, for whatever reason, there seems to be a cooperation between the city(ies) and railroads in this region.