Just a scratch. It’ll buff right out.
Actually, the turret gears and traverse system is shot. The spinning turret looks like something out of a cartoon.
Who gets to pick up the repair bill?
& who gets the blame?
Truck driver would be my guess for “parking” on the track. The company pays the damages. Just a wag.
Truck driver or truck companys insurance?
Shouldn’t have taken that route where a lowbed can get hung up on the railroad crossing. Route planning, which roads/streets can I drive with this truck and load considering weight, height, width, turning radius limits are there any humps or speed bumps that I can get hung up on.
In a number/if not all states that usual requires a permit with the oversize/over weight folks and they tell you where to go. This could be on base than that’s fed issue and different, not sure.
HP’s last photo says it all. Here’s your sign. 
There is also another sign, some yards further away from the crossing.
I have updated my previous post …
Driver with a commercial licence (CDL?) should know this …
Not on post. Article says it was in Goose Creek, SC, which is about 5 miles from Joint Base Charleston in SC.
He was trying to use the crossing at Liberty Hall Road.
He should have been further south, used the crossing at Red Bank Road, US 176 turns south just before the railroad so straight ahead leaves US 176 and the crossing is the start (or end) of Red Bank Road. Follow Red Bank Road south-south-east and then it swings east-south-east (as State Rd S-8-29), crosses another railroad branch. Immediately past the crossing turn left onto Pomflant Access Road and drive up to the gates.
I wonder if the truck originally came from the south or the north?
A bit further south there is also the 841st Trans Battalion in Charleston
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One can only hope the driver had enough sense to abandon his rig when the train approached. Looks like a couple of people are standing near the cab on the far side of the tracks as the train comes into view.
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When a lowbed trailer gets stuck and the train horn can be heard in the distance then every local yokel knows there is soon to be a train wreck …
Old joke from the 'net:
Tom applies for a job as signalman at the railroad and gets called to a job interview:
"The inspector decides to give Tom a pop quiz, asking:
“What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?”
Tom says: “I would switch one train to another track.”
“What if the lever broke?” asks the inspector.
“Then I’d run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there,” answers Tom.
“What if that had been struck by lightning?” challenges the inspector.
“Then,” Tom continued, “I’d run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box.”
“What if the phone was busy?”
“In that case,” Tom argued, “I’d run to the street level and use the public phone near the station.” “What if that had been vandalized?”
“Oh well,” said Tom, "in that case I would run into town and get my Uncle Leo.
This puzzled the inspector, so he asked “Why would you do that?”
“Because he’s never seen a train crash.” "
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I suspect the recoil system will also need looking at. As the first engine was passing the lowboy, the turret swung and the guntube swung into the path of the second locomotives cab which looked like it recoiled the tube as it passed by and spun the turret
Worse than that. The trunions are not designed for lateral stresses like that. Pretty much everything associated with the gun tube on back is useless.
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From the offset, the traverse mechanism is shot to heck, recoil system damaged. Much more probably knocked out of whack. God knows of the vehicle suffered structural damage to the point of being Permanently Deadlined
hope they got the ORF ready to go.
They might as well put that thing on a front gate and call it a gate guard. The train won the fight.
Btw, as a trucker I have seen many times a well planned route gets screwed up because of GPS directions.
There are times when road work changes things that do not get updated in gps mapping system fast enough.
A good example, there is a small bridge locally that comes into a truck route CA 70 going North or South through Marysvile, CA. A local company I previously worked for had one off its trailer get wrecked by the bridge. Apparently, this bridge moved…
Before the accident, Caltrans repaved the road and it changed the clearance for the traffic below this bridge and the sign was not updated. The city sued the company for the damages but the company won the case because in their investigation they found out that the posted sign was off by 4”. So, be warned as bridges can move. 
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Technically a number of bridges are moving all the time but that is more in a horizontal direction and not vertical but in this case the bridge didn’t move but the under crossing did with the repaving. An extra 4” seems like a lot. That’s what she said. 
I say that as all the curb and gutter/drainage, manholes etc all have to be lifted. Most times they try to demill the top 2” and repave to avoid all that extra work.
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Yep,
and re-use/recycle the milled off material
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Ouch !