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Crossings / Washington / Centralia

Centralia
Washington.

Public crossings41at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates46%20 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 41 public at-grade railroad crossings in Centralia, WA, operated by 3 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad Company operates 21 of the crossings here, 51% of the total, ahead of RAINIER RAIL LLC at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (41) and intercity (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad Company2151%
RAINIER RAIL LLC1229%
BNSF Railway Company820%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E Floral Ave on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 38 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 41 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

19 of the 41 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 20 (49%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E Floral Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Big Hanaford Road — 1 reported incident
  • Taylor St — 1 reported incident
  • Sandra Avenue — 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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