Are there any laws about how long a train can hold up traffic?

Are there any laws about how long a train can hold up traffic?
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The railroad owns the land that the rails sit on plus some on either side. In most cases, it was there before anybody built a vehicular road that crosses the rails. The people who build roads for cars and trucks do not own the strip that crosses the rails. So they have to put up with it, or build over or under it. So no, the vehicular traffic has to suck it up.
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