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Crossings / Colorado / Aurora

Aurora
Colorado.

Public crossings45at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates40%27 with no active device
Under a whistle ban1as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents14Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 45 public at-grade railroad crossings in Aurora, CO, operated by 3 railroads. 20 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 24 of the crossings here, 53% of the total, ahead of REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT -- DENVER at 19.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (24), transit (19) and commuter (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company2453%
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT -- DENVER1942%
Regional Transit District- Commuter24%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Chambers Road on Regional Transit District- Commuter is credited with 146 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 45 is 1. 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

18 of the 45 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 27 (60%) 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

1 of the crossings (2%) 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 14 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 14 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Sable Blvd — 5 reported incidents
  • Chambers Road — 4 reported incidents
  • CR 29 — 3 reported incidents
  • East 33rd Place — 1 reported incident
  • Smith Road — 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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