Try the "Renton Rocket" on for size. Taken last June in Renton, Washington, by someone who calls himself "Railroad1970." This is on my beat, and the silverish cabinet to the left of the Main St. signage is the case for the crossing equipment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtdMAjHtqRU&feature=relmfu
The Rocket runs five and sometimes six days a week to the Boeing 737 plant in Renton. The location shown here is the former Milwaukee Road mainline (now a BNSF branch) that runs east-west through the middle of Houser Way in Renton. Fifty years ago this scene would have featured catenary for the MILW's electric locos. The garbage containers are for the Rabanco waste collection site located near Renton Junction, about three miles west (leftward) where the branch diverges eastward from Main 3. The train will switch the Boeing plant, run around its cars, head west to switch Rabanco, and be back in Seattle by mid- to late afternoon.
Also west (leftward) of this photo was the now-defunct Black River Junction, where the BN (nee Northern Pacific), the Pacific Coast RR, the MILW, and the Union Pacific manuevered around each other on their ways to and from Seattle and Tacoma, and in the MILW's case, east over Cascade Mountains via Renton. Too difficult to explain here all that took place at Black River!