hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > There was a contact phone number on the signal hut.  I attempted to   
   > report the problem, but received a recording that the number was   
   > disconnected.   
      
   Was it a 7-digit or 10-digit phone number?  If 7-digit, maybe the area   
   code has changed.  (NJT still should have posted new signs, though.   
   Stickers are cheap.)   
      
   Did you eventually find some way to contact NJT?   
      
   > Could it have been a cellphone glitch?   
      
   If you just dialed 7 digits of a 10 digit number, that may have been the   
   problem.   
      
   I live near the boundary of area codes 816 and 913.  If I'm far enough   
   to one side of the boundary, I usually don't have to dial the area code   
   to call a number in that same area code.  If I'm near the boundary, it   
   seems to depend on which tower my phone is talking to at the moment.   
   Dialing all 10 digits always works, no matter where I am.   
      
   The times I've turned in grade crossing problems, I think it's always   
   been a toll-free number.  Once was to a Class 1 (BNSF or UP, I don't   
   remember which) and one was a regional shortline.  Both times I got a   
   human after just a couple of rings.   
      
   Matt Roberds   
      
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