Crossings / Tennessee / Chattanooga
Chattanooga
Tennessee.
The federal crossing inventory lists 122 public at-grade railroad crossings in Chattanooga, TN, operated by 6 railroads. 18 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 82 of the crossings here, 67% of the total, ahead of East Chattanooga Belt Railway Company at 24.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (120) and tourist/other (27).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 82 | 67% |
| East Chattanooga Belt Railway Company | 24 | 20% |
| CSX Transportation | 10 | 8% |
| Chattooga & Chickamauga Railroad | 3 | 2% |
| Tyner Terminal Railway Company | 2 | 2% |
| Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Company | 1 | 1% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at N Hawthorne St on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 60 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 122 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 105 mph.
Warning devices
16 of the 122 crossings carry gates and 35 have flashing lights without gates. 71 (58%) 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 23 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Old Wauhatchie Pike — 4 reported incidents
- Hickory Valley Road — 2 reported incidents
- Wilson Road — 1 reported incident
- W 47th Street — 1 reported incident
- Wauhatachie Pike — 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 Tennessee cities on the inventory
- Memphis 157 crossings
- Knoxville 132 crossings
- Nashville 130 crossings
- Oak Ridge 49 crossings
- Jackson 44 crossings
- Morristown 44 crossings
- Lebanon 40 crossings
- Johnson City 36 crossings