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Bismarck
North Dakota.

Public crossings32at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates59%13 with no active device
Under a whistle ban3as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 32 public at-grade railroad crossings in Bismarck, ND, operated by 2 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

DAKOTA, MISSOURI VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD, INC. operates 19 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (32).

RailroadCrossingsShare
DAKOTA, MISSOURI VALLEY & WESTERN RAILROAD, INC.1959%
BNSF Railway Company1341%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at S 24th St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 12 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 is 2. 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

19 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (41%) 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

3 of the crossings (9%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 5th St — 2 reported incidents
  • 119th St Se — 1 reported incident
  • S 24th St — 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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