I too saw a couple (again, a young man & woman - maybe the same ones?) maybe 2 years ago climbing through the space between 2 cars while a train blocked the Locust crossing. I emailed Free the Schuylkill River Park because I thought that if CSX snapped shots of people doing this they would never settle with the city. Now there are signs up, but I guess people will still do it. Though it has also been my observation that the trains often seem to stop short of the crossover, leaving it open.

As slow as these trains go, you'd basically have to lie down on the tracks and wait to get run over by one of them. The main danger is, I think, in the scenario I just described - trying to climb over/under a parked train & having it start up on you.

This is a pretty well-used line, so I don't see CSX giving it up (or the city asking them to). An official at-grade crossing w/ a barrier makes a lot of sense, & hopefully CSX can eventually be prevailed on to do this.