Quite a while ago, and I can’t even recall who described it to me, some jackass in Indiana pulled a tractor onto a rural grade-crossing when s/he could see a train approaching in the distance at night. The idiot turned the tractor so it was facing down the track and then turned-on his headlights. The train crew didn’t bail but they did an emergency stop and laid on the horn. The tractor joker pulled off the crossing and beat a “high speed” escape but apparently somebody bragged about it or maybe there were witnesses and the cops caught-up with them as the story went (don’t know what their punishment was).
In some parts of IN, especially along the old PRR’s Ft. Wayne line, I could see where there’d be enough visibility down the straight-a-way to allow time to pull this kind of prank. On the Ft. Wayne line whatever train it was (PC, CR, CSX?), I doubt the train was going real fast, but Amtrak also used that line for the Broadway Limited into the late 80’s.