They all seem to be like that, on PS4 anyway. I have the Collector's Edition and CN Oakville and all xings seem to be permanently activated.
Oakville is one of the old routes from before crossings were animated. On newer ones they're supposed to work.
One more question about these crossings: Are the traffic lights shown with the correct colour (red)? As far as I remember they were all wrong (yellow) on Hamburg-Lübeck.
What's considered new? All the xing barriers and lights seem to stay permanently activated on ECW and Penn. Corr. as well. Haven't tried Sandpatch or the 2 German routes I have.