I have been riding since before some of your were born and I still have to practice deep breathing and relaxing my shoulders when I come down a hill that has railroad tracks at the bottom. I have never crashed on tracks but my DH lost his front wheel going over tracks many years ago and my daughter just destroyed her rear wheel when it slipped into the rail in the rain last week. Fear is healthy sometimes as it keeps us from getting to complacent. Good luck, you will do fantastic.
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