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Crossings / Louisiana / Chalmette

Chalmette
Louisiana.

Public crossings24at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates4%19 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 24 public at-grade railroad crossings in Chalmette, LA, operated by one railroad. Each carries a single track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 24 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (24).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Judge Perez Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 6 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 24 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 15 mph.

Warning devices

1 of the 24 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 19 (79%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Laura Drive — 2 reported incidents
  • St Benard Highway — 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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