Railroad crossing and track slope

The rules can get complicated and depends on the state ad era you're modeling and since I don't have access to my books today I won't try to state them from memory. But it can all be summarized by a common sense rule: approaching traffic must be able to see the train or a active monitoring signal in time to stop at the posted speed limit. Otherwise the crossing is marked as "stop-look-listen."

In my neighborhood there are some rather steep (4-5%0 road crossing at about a 30-45 degree angle. May I suggest you take a look at the crossing at Highway 88 and Brook Ranch Rd. in Ione CA and the crossing on Highway 88 East of Sutter Creek Ranch Rd. as extreme examples of what you want to model. Sorry, I don't seem to be able to get the map URL to load correctly.

Hope this helps,

Mark

I don't know if that helps you with your issue, but here are two railroad crossings we modeled on Niles Junction;






Best,
Sven

In the 60ties at the Eastcoast, for sure!

Here you see quite nicely how we model the road up to the level of the tracks:



Here with asphalt:



Hope this helps!

Best,
Sven

Thanks, the last picture with the US steam loco seems the most interesting and, despite of the fact that the track has no slope, I saw that the left edge of the road in front of the track is a little bit higher ... and it causes no issue to anybody. The last picture of all is unfortunately the less interesting, I saw a German steam loco, and so I think it is a German layout ... or is it the same, only with an other looking angle and some different vehicles ?

Thanks Mark, this brought me much new knowledge about road signs. First, that the pavement markings are white, excepted for the double line in the middle which is yellow. And then, I didn't know exactly the pavement markings at a R-R crossing and the "R X R" signs in front, I only knew the St Andrew's crosses with the two lights ... Other countries, other rules !