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Crossings / South Dakota / Aberdeen

Aberdeen
South Dakota.

Public crossings43at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates23%27 with no active device
Under a whistle ban2as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 43 public at-grade railroad crossings in Aberdeen, SD, operated by 2 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 27 of the crossings here, 63% of the total, ahead of DAKOTA, MISSOURI VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD, INC. at 16.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (43).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company2763%
DAKOTA, MISSOURI VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD, INC.1637%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 392nd Avenue on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 5 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 43 is 3. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.

The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 40 mph.

Warning devices

10 of the 43 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 27 (63%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

2 of the crossings (5%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 379th Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • 391st Avenue/ CR 14 — 1 reported incident
  • 5th St So — 1 reported incident
  • Dakota Street N — 1 reported incident
  • 384th Avenue — 1 reported incident

What this page is not

This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.

To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.

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