A key scene

This view from the E Ferry street grade crossing is a key scene I want to try and recreate. The look and feel of this is what I'm after. I'm tempted to backdate to 2006ish before most of the right of way was fenced off, referred to as "the cage". The operational steps of opening and shutting the gates would be interesting but I'm not sure I want to build 12+ feet of HO scale chain link fence.