Once when I was driving to work early in the morning some years back; I got stopped at this old railroad crossing which at that time had no guard rail to come down, and the lights often would flash without a train being present. It was sort of a pain because you never would know if there actually was a train or not, and so you would have to just edge your vehicle out on the tracks. Anyway I edged out and way down the line I saw this old railroad car where the men pump it to move along. Like something out of the old west. It was coming real slow with two men pumping it. I had to wait until they passed and then cross to drive on to work. That was funny to me.