I'm still in the middle of converting all of my 8mm and VHS-C camcorder tapes onto the computer but I found this stuff of Amtrack action at Santa Barbara back in 1998 and though you might be interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAqDQVKg5qg there was a lot of trackwork going off at the time and the town was getting gridlocked every now and then as the barriers kept going down when there was no train coming! KEV