Ohio has had some sort of law against blocked railroad crossings since 1853. In 1999, it passed an anti-blocking law that said nonmoving trains cannot block a cross for more than five minutes.

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But that idea won't be popular with the railroads that have come to rely heavily on having one person control trains moving around ... CSX's rail yard in Walbridge, Ohio. Railroad safety has ...