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Crossings / Illinois / Champaign

Champaign
Illinois.

Public crossings33at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates12%5 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 33 public at-grade railroad crossings in Champaign, IL, operated by 2 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 21 of the crossings here, 64% of the total, ahead of Illinois Central Railroad Company at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (33) and intercity (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2164%
Illinois Central Railroad Company1236%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Bradley Ave on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 19 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 is 0. 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

4 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 24 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (15%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Bradley Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Duncan RD 900 E — 2 reported incidents
  • Elm St — 1 reported incident
  • Mattis Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Springfield Ave — 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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