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Crossings / Ohio / Akron

Akron
Ohio.

Public crossings33at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates58%2 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents1Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 33 public at-grade railroad crossings in Akron, OH, operated by 5 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company operates 11 of the crossings here, 33% of the total, ahead of Metro Regional Transit Authority at 9.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (18) and tourist/other (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company1133%
Metro Regional Transit Authority927%
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railway618%
Akron Barberton Cluster Railway Company618%
CSX Transportation13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Arlington St on CSX Transportation is credited with 9 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 is 4. 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

19 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 12 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (6%) 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

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Williams St — 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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