01-13-2013, 10:01 AM
I think there are several questions here. One is that street trackage is always a special case. If the track goes down the center of a street from one end of the street to the other, does it ever cross the street? Where would you put the crossing sign?
Another question might be the age of the trackage. If it was laid in the 19th or early 20th century, the rules may have been different, and the whole thing may have been "grandfathered in". Before the whole business was removed, the River Station Yard area in Los Angeles was one of the very oldest parts of the city, and there was very little signage at crossings:
Even where there are signals, they aren't necessarily where you'd expect:
Another question might be the age of the trackage. If it was laid in the 19th or early 20th century, the rules may have been different, and the whole thing may have been "grandfathered in". Before the whole business was removed, the River Station Yard area in Los Angeles was one of the very oldest parts of the city, and there was very little signage at crossings:
Even where there are signals, they aren't necessarily where you'd expect: