The Most Hardcore Railroad Crossing Ever

For the record, the intro comprises about 4.6% of the video, and starts 24.5% of the way through the video. The intro to video ratio is about 1:21. I’m not that much of a math person, though, so the only calculation here that I’m confident about is that I give 0 fucks. What else should Billups have added to really drive the point home? Spooky bats that get released every time a train goes by -   / membership   A big fist that springs out and punches would-be daredevils - https://x.com/parsons_tor Sponsorships to fund repairs, so it could read "STOP - DEATH - MCDONALDS - STOP" -   / mrsluds   A bunch of durians to make it smell really bad, too -   / tor.in.oregon   SOURCES & FURTHER INFO First well-documented train-car collision (although please let me know if you find coverage of an earlier one!): https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/bl... First documented (but not well-documented!) train-road vehicle collision: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eve... Indian Railways replacing automated crossings with manned ones, and then manned crossings with overpasses: https://www.newindianexpress.com/nati... History of crossing signals in the US: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewc... Folks reminiscing about the Billups: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/show... Experimental crossing with retractable pylons in Michigan: https://ble-t.org/news/railroad-cross... Russian crossings with steel plates: https://www.eurogunzel.com/2019/02/ru... A better video essay that’s also about the Billups - I literally mean that, this kid made observations about the signal’s operation that I didn’t, and has probably the most accurate animation of it working:    • The billups neon crossing signal ms 332 Gr...