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Crossings / California / Anaheim

Anaheim
California.

Public crossings69at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates51%26 with no active device
Under a whistle ban14as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents9Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 69 public at-grade railroad crossings in Anaheim, CA, operated by 3 railroads. 18 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 53 of the crossings here, 77% of the total, ahead of Southern California Regional Rail Authority at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (69), commuter (13) and intercity (11).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company5377%
Southern California Regional Rail Authority1319%
BNSF Railway Company34%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E Orangethorpe Av on Southern California Regional Rail Authority is credited with 53 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 69 is 0. 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

35 of the 69 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 26 (38%) 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

14 of the crossings (20%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 deaths and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E South St — 2 reported incidents
  • E Cerritos Av — 2 reported incidents
  • E Orangethorpe Av — 1 reported incident
  • E Sycamore St — 1 reported incident
  • E Ball Rd — 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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