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Arvada
Colorado.

Public crossings24at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates88%3 with no active device
Under a whistle ban19as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 24 public at-grade railroad crossings in Arvada, CO, operated by 3 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 12 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Regional Transit District- Commuter at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (13), commuter (11) and intercity (10).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1250%
Regional Transit District- Commuter1146%
BNSF Railway Company14%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Garrison Street on Regional Transit District- Commuter is credited with 134 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 24 is 7. 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

21 of the 24 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (13%) 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

19 of the crossings (79%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Lamar Street — 1 reported incident
  • Tennyson Street — 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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