Certain embodiments provide a crossing bar system. The crossing bar system may include a rotatable drive shaft, a motor, a triangular crossing bar tube, and a vehicle body bar restraint. The motor is coupleable to an end of a vehicle and is operable to rotate the rotatable drive shaft. The triangular crossing bar tube is coupled to and extends substantially horizontally from the rotatable drive shaft. The triangular crossing bar tube may include lighting. The vehicle body bar restraint is coupleable to the end of the vehicle. The triangular crossing bar tube is deployable between a retracted position where the triangular crossing bar tube is substantially parallel to the end of the vehicle and may be received within the restraint, and a deployed position where the triangular crossing bar tube is substantially perpendicular to the end of the vehicle.