Atwater
California.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 5 of the crossings here, 45% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 4.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (11) and intercity (4).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
BNSF Railway Company	5	45%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	4	36%
MERCED COUNTY CENTRAL VALLEY RAILROAD	2	18%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at West AVE 2 on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 29 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 11 is 20. 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 70 mph.

Warning devices

9 of the 11 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (18%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Bert Crane Road — 4 reported incidents
• West AVE 2 — 2 reported incidents
• Buhach Rd — 2 reported incidents
• Shaffer Road — 2 reported incidents
• Shaffer 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.