I bet no one outside of Seaboard Air Line Railway was thinking about this 77 years ago......
Quote1936 deal with CSX predecessor could cost Florida half a million dollars
In a case stemming from a 1936 agreement about building a road in then-rural Pasco County, an appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling that the state Department of Transportation should pay more than $500,000 to CSX Transportation.
QuoteThe agreement is so old that it was entered into by the State Road Department, a predecessor to DOT, and receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway --- a CSX predecessor that was in receivership during the Great Depression. The state entered into the agreement because it needed to cross a Seaboard rail line to build the road, which is now State Road 52 in Pasco County.
QuoteThe opinion does not provide much detail about the 2002 accident but said a truck traveling on State Road 52 drove over CSX tracks and that its trailer became disconnected. The trailer and its load of lumber struck a couple's car, killing a man and badly injuring his wife. The opinion indicates the case involved allegations that the crossing was poorly maintained.
QuoteAltenbernd wrote that the state in 1936 wanted to build a road on abandoned right-of-way of an old logging railway that had served the community of Fivay, which Altenbernd described as "little more than a ghost town by the mid-1930s."
To build the road, however, the state needed to cross an active Seaboard rail line. The state did not buy or lease the land for the crossing "but agreed to protect the railroad from any loss related to the State Road Department's activities at the crossing,'' the ruling said
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2013/12/11/1936-deal-with-csx-predecessor-could.html
Gee imagine that, the railroad had to sue to get Florida to honor their deal? Positively Apocalyptic.