In case you're wondering why the railroad crossings aren't making any noise, there's a glitch in this game that causes that to happen. The only way to fix it is by restarting the computer. After two tries, it still wasn't working...
This is partially based on a real railroad crossing I saw in a YouTube video when I was a teenager. I took away the gates and replaced the BN locomotives with steam engines. Really, the only thing I left was the blizzard. Interestingly, it's been years since the last time I used the snow feature in this game.