Crossings / Illinois / Blue Island
Blue Island
Illinois.
The federal crossing inventory lists 23 public at-grade railroad crossings in Blue Island, IL, operated by 3 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 13 of the crossings here, 57% of the total, ahead of NORTHEAST ILLINOIS REGIONAL COMMUTER RAIL CORP. -- METRA at 9.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (14) and tourist/other (9).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 13 | 57% |
| NORTHEAST ILLINOIS REGIONAL COMMUTER RAIL CORP. -- METRA | 9 | 39% |
| Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company | 1 | 4% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Vermont St on NORTHEAST ILLINOIS REGIONAL COMMUTER RAIL CORP. -- METRA is credited with 109 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 23 is 7. 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 23 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (13%) 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
7 of the crossings (30%) 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 15 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 13 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Chatham Street — 4 reported incidents
- Western Avenue — 4 reported incidents
- 127th St — 2 reported incidents
- Vermont St — 2 reported incidents
- Thornton Rd — 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.