The crossing on the old road
Louisiana · United States · Road
In the 1950s, before there were any signs at this crossing, a family drove down the road: mother, father and two daughters.
An old road runs out of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a railway crosses it on its way to the rice mills.
In the 1950s, before there were any warning signs at the crossing, a family drove down that road. A mother, a father, and two daughters.
What happened at the crossing is what is reported there now.
The absence of signs is the part that matters and it is historically accurate. Unprotected level crossings on rural American roads killed people constantly, and the federal programme to sign and gate them did not get going properly until decades later. A crossing serving industrial traffic on a farm road in Louisiana in the 1950s would have had nothing at all.
Rice is still the crop here, and the mills are still at the end of the line.
The road and crossing are public.
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The crossing on the old road is in Louisiana, United States.
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