Chanute
Kansas.
The federal crossing inventory lists 20 public at-grade railroad crossings in Chanute, KS, operated by one railroad. 2 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad Company operates 20 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (20).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at South Washington Street on South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad Company is credited with 1 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 20 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 25 mph.
Warning devices
7 of the 20 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (55%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- East Spruce 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.
Other Kansas cities on the inventory
- Wichita 164 crossings
- Hutchinson 104 crossings
- Salina 80 crossings
- Kansas City 78 crossings
- Winfield 72 crossings
- Emporia 50 crossings
- McPherson 50 crossings
- Great Bend 45 crossings