<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">True, but it might well derail a locomotive in the winter. I once saw a locomotive derailed by mud that had flowed across the track, then frozen.. Fortunately, the locomotive was moving slowly enough that it didn't cause a catastrophic accident.<br><br><font color="#333333"><i><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="sans-serif">Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless</font></span></i></font></div><br><br>-----Original message-----<br><blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com><b><br>To: </b>Richard Weait <richard@weait.com><b><br>Cc: </b>talk@openstreetmap.org<b><br>Sent: </b>Thu, May 26, 2011 05:04:31 GMT+00:00<b><br>Subject: </b>Re: [OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled<br><br></div>Richard Weait writes:<br> > What should be done with a level_crossing, when trains may cross no longer?<br> > <br> > The junction was a level_crossing, but has been repaved and<br> > re-sculpted. The rails are now covered by 0.3 - 0.4 m of asphalt<br> > which appears to have been laid directly over the tracks. So the<br> > railway hardware appears to still be there, but unusable. The rails<br> > continue both directions from the level_crossing.<br> > <br> > To this point, I have left the level_crossing tag in place; it can<br> > still serve as a waypoint, I suppose.<br><br>30cm of asphalt on a warm sunny day is no barrier to a 170 ton<br>locomotive. Think of a marshmellow being run over by a car.<br><br>-- <br>--my blog is at <a href="http://blog.russnelson.com">http://blog.russnelson.com</a><br>Crynwr supports open source software<br>521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815<br>Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></blockquote></body></html>