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I live near a RR track that I have to cross each day to and from work. There are several streets that cross the tracks with lots of homes on one side and lots of businesses on the others, so tons of commuters going back and forth each day.

At least once a week I have to wait for a train, but that is expected so whatever. What gets me is this (here is the question):

Why do you sometimes stop on the tracks? And as a followup, why do you stop on the tracks and block the crossing?

That really kills me. I kid you not, I once saw an engineer stop on the tracks, block a super busy crossing during rush hour, hop out of the train and run across the street to 7-11 and grab a sandwich and a coke. He had this grin the whole time looking at everyone like "what are you going to do, I'm in a train bitches"

I'm from Texas as well (D/FW area), so you might be responsible for this :)

TL;DR: Why do you have to stop on crossings?