Sentence examples for train crossings from inspiring English sources

And, critics charge, a crackdown on immigrants along the highways and train crossings will force immigrants to cross in areas that are less hospitable than the steady Suchiate River.

Federal regulations for train crossings require that flashing lights and bells at the gates begin at least 20 seconds before a train passes.

Many are contractors that maintain the infrastructure by resurfacing roadways, fixing signal gates at train crossings or repairing sewer mains at prisons.

The blackout all but shut down San Diego's airport and caused major traffic jams through the area as drivers struggled to navigate roads without stoplights and working train crossings.

In order to avoid high computational effort due to long time-history dynamic analyses by using the bridge model subjected to a series of train crossings, a new frequency domain approach for the identification of critical loading conditions is proposed.

There has also been an effort to improve the safety of train crossings.

The Border Patrol, the Customs Service and the private security force of the railroad routinely inspect trains at crossings with dogs that can sniff out drugs and people.

He also states that Acela trains are "often held up by freight trains and road crossings".

Chinese newspapers frequently report railway fatalities, although most of them involve small numbers of deaths from collisions between trains and vehicles at track crossings.

I invited a handful of writers I knew -- starting in Maine and Alaska, with several states in between -- to write a poem inspired by Donald Justice's "Crossing Kansas by Train" and Ravi Shankar's :Crossings".

Dr. Leibowitz also argued that a visual illusion was behind collisions between cars and trains at railway crossings.