Let me explain. When a railroad becomes abandoned, even if the line still owns it, the crossings are usually paved over, and the signals are either removed or marked as "exempt" even if there's no train. Here we have a railroad crossing through the center of an intersection. In 1997, this line went out of service when a creosote plant closed and disconnected from the mainline in 2006. In 2012, the road was repaved and despite the rail having no connections on either end (shown here), railroad crossing marks were painted into the ground with the structures still there. Fast forward to today, where the rail line got reconnected and rebuilt to a new Home Depot distribution center. My question is, did they deliberately leave the crossing as-is during the time of its abandonment, or was it somehow "marked" as a "real" railroad crossing despite being obviously abandoned?