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Try any number of side streets between Butler and the River. I think the best access between 40 Street and the Highland Park Bridge.

River Road near the Heinz Plant - more East than West...

There's also the MonConn RR behind the PTC, but there are barely ever trains on it.

Are any of those diagonal to the roadway?

The Google-car knoweth.

The rail road tracks are on marked on Google maps. You could check with streetview to see if it is an at-grade crossing. There isn't many railroad at-grade crossings in the east end because the main line is elevated (I don't know the rail line name).

Not east end, but there is a great RR diagonal at grade crossing at Mars Valencia Road just north of Route 228 in Cranberry/Seven Fields area. We get a lot of complaints about that location.

What about to the west of the Route 8 corridor? The crossings I can think of are pretty straight on, but there migth be a diagonal crossing in that corridor.

Thanks a lot for these suggestions, there are a couple around 40th-43d St that might suit.

Across 40th Street bridge, on the access road for the trail/skate park/rowing club.

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That line going up into Mars has several not-quite-90-degree crossings. Swalfoort mentioned the one on the S end of Mars; there's a real narrow-angle crossing just N of Mars. The crossing on Sample, just SW of MtRoyal is another, not as bad as the ones in Mars but very bumpy and at the base of a steep hill; the track itself has a curve there.

On Duncan just W of 8, too. On Elfinwild, it crosses the road at a 90-degree angle but the road itself has a very tight bend right next to it, at the base of a steep hill. Also Pennview going W off of 8 just above Etna.