It Is Texas Law That When Two Trains Meet Each Other At A Railroad Crossing, Each Shall Come To A Full Stop, And Neither Shall Proceed Until The Other Has Gone.

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It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad
crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed
until the other has gone.

In one of those "true facts" books there was an explanation for this
law. It seems that one of the state senators did not want a law
passed. To to keep this particular law from passing he attached the
train law to it. Hoping that that his fellow senators would discover
the train law attached, see how ridiculous it was, and not pass the
laws. Nobody saw the the train law attached and passed both laws. This
may not be the real reason, but it sounds good. And it might explain
some of the laws we have to live with.

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