Local train crossings blocked, all trains stopped nation-wide

That's pretty dang strange. Nearest crossing is 5 miles from here so I can't check right now. I've never heard of such a thing, tbh.

To find out why!

Broken Arrow?

Just texted my friend who worked for the railroad and he told me the only reason he can think of is: "Someone might have hacked them".

Nope. I'm sitting here right now listening to a train roll down the tracks...so not nationwide.

CROSSINGS. Not trains.

I cannot believe I went out to look..NOTHING..Gates UP..NO train..

Everything here is operating as usual.

WW3 started today.

Chinese hackers!

Or slackers....

Only in Ireland..

Trains have their normal delays in Boston

Crossing worked fine by my house today.

In Texas
Just saw a train

I wonder if it has anything to do with strike action going on up here?
Am only speculating.

Amtrak delays...


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I work for the railroad in Texas and all Is normal. A train is rolling by right now. The article says CN so I can’t vouch for them, but UP and BN are running normal here. No stoppages, no crossings blocked.

Y'all are being trainsphobic

Just entered the train and went wrong direction

Our trains are running...but they may not be running on time.

That article was about Lansing, MI. I am in SE Michigan and the there are 3 live cameras at railroad crossings not far from me. All of them are clear right now. No trains.

MI has a large Muslim population. Connection?

orange man bad!

OP this is as bad as fake news....at least verify the situation....what wanna be first whether it's true or not....wtf?....

CSX and Norfolk Souther at least utilize a Master Control Center that controls ALL trains in their network. Both of those systems also have a Backup Control Center located in an entirely different location in case the Master Control Center goes off line or goes down.

IF both of those Centers lose the ability to run the system there are standardized shutdown procedures for all moving stock across the many thousands of miles of their system.

I would assume in this day and age ALL of the major train companies are run the same way, a centralized Master Control Center with a Backup Control Center located in an entirely different location.

One outside problem that has caused partial shutdowns to occur is if one company's computers stop talking to another company's computers. That could be caused by computer problems or fiber optic line problems. WHEN that happens all trackage where the two systems operate simultaneously for the lines where their trackages cross would most likely be automatically shut down. In my area we have a number of line crosses between the different RR companies and the train crossing points have to be coordinated between the two companies to avoid any problems ... I have personally seen trains held, while running, for up to 12 hours on those lines, with a van bringing out a replacement engine crew because the wait ends up being so long.

Recently I did see a major problem with a CSX train and Norfolk Southern train. Some screw up in the computer sytstems allowed both to be on the same track at the same time heading towards each other (multiple major river bridges involved) ... and they ended up stopped on a bridge nose to nose about 20 feet apart!!! I imagine the engineers on both of those locomotives were shitting their pants when they saw another freight train heading straight towards them on the same track!!

Of course with both of those trains then stopped, right on a bridge, in a place which was a switching hub with tracks going off in multiple directions on all sides of the multiple bridges, I imangine both systems ended up with track stoppages going up line hundreds of miles in all directions. No damage ... but a nightmare to sort out and get trains running through the system again.

The most easy thing is to sabotage train rails

no one can guard them (thousands of miles) many victims

uncontroled terror because of no protection

easy prey for terrorists

I highly doubt that.

Only odd thing here was we had a train go south night before last instead of north at that time like usual.
If anything, I would think it would be US using trains to....go visit...somebody else? We did do that before