Big Spring
Texas.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 5 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Big Spring Rail System, Inc. at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (10) and intercity (1).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	5	50%
Big Spring Rail System, Inc.	5	50%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at FM 818 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 40 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 10 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

4 of the 10 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (40%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Midway Road — 4 reported incidents
• Birdwell Lane — 2 reported incidents
• FM 818 — 1 reported incident
• BUS 20 HWY 80 — 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.