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Crossings / Louisiana / Baker

Baker
Louisiana.

Public crossings12at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates33%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 12 public at-grade railroad crossings in Baker, LA, operated by 2 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Bogalusa Bayou Railroad dba Geaux Geaux RR operates 6 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Bogalusa Bayou Railroad dba Geaux Geaux RR650%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company650%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Shertz Rd on Kansas City Southern Railway Company is credited with 7 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 12 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 49 mph.

Warning devices

4 of the 12 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (58%) 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 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.

  • Springfield Rd — 1 reported incident
  • Brooklawn Drive — 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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