Them Aussies sure have some unusual trackage. http://www.railexpress.com.au/is-this-australias-weirdest-railroad-crossing/
Whaaaa??? Do my eyes deceive or do the right-left track segments swing UP to allow the foreground-background traffic to proceed? If so, CLEVER!
The main line is high speed passenger, the crossing is narrow gauge sugar cane RR. Don't want no stinken diamonds and frogs on it.
Well, I just stumbled upon the original discussion of this crossing, linked on a narrow gauge forum which I am a member: http://www.railexpress.com.au/is-this-australias-weirdest-railroad-crossing/
Yeah, I posted the same link at the bottom of the first post in the tread. Kind of hiding under the photo.
The CA St RR Museum does something like that to cross the UP in Sacramento. They just bolt two rails over the UP rails so nothing as fancy as the Aussies. They don't need to do it more than once a week? Month? so a real Xing isn't worth it.
Looks like a drawbridge. It also makes me think of a feature in Trains magazine called "What The?" Trains no longer publishes that feature, and I wish they'd bring it back. But it was photos of some of the stranger aspects of railroads, like a locomotive that was decorated like the Easter Bunny for an Easter train ride, a tumbleweed in front of another locomotive, and other such strange things on railroads. That crossing would have fit perfectly.