Bessemer
Alabama.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 25 of the crossings here, 57% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (44) and intercity (15).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	25	57%
CSX Transportation	13	30%
Birmingham Terminal Railway LLC	6	14%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at McAdory School Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 44 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 44 is 3. 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

19 of the 44 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 20 (45%) 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 47 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 18 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Carolina Ave — 8 reported incidents
• 22nd St — 6 reported incidents
• 32nd Street North — 5 reported incidents
• 4th Avenue — 3 reported incidents
• 8th Ave — 3 reported incidents

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.