@Big Jim posted:What were the circumstances involved?
When I was switching over a road crossing and happened to be just clear of the crossing and the gates are still down or if they aren't and I could clearly see no one was near, why make a bunch of unnecessary noise?
Don't know how true this, but have read, sometimes there are RR inspectors hiding in the weeds with radar guns, stopwatches, and or videos just waiting to pounce on errant engineers.