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Crossings / Texas / Carrollton

Carrollton
Texas.

Public crossings51at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates63%18 with no active device
Under a whistle ban14as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents9Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 51 public at-grade railroad crossings in Carrollton, TX, operated by 7 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad operates 20 of the crossings here, 39% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (48), transit (4) and commuter (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad2039%
BNSF Railway Company1020%
DART Silverline714%
Dallas Area Rapid Transit510%
Fort Worth & Western Railroad48%
Denton County Transportation Authority36%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ismaili Center Circle on Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad is credited with 113 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 51 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

32 of the 51 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 18 (35%) 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

14 of the crossings (27%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Marsh Lane — 2 reported incidents
  • Westway Circle — 1 reported incident
  • Denton Road — 1 reported incident
  • West Crosby Road — 1 reported incident
  • Beltline Road — 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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