Columbia City
Indiana.

Who runs the track

CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN operates 11 of the crossings here, 65% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (17).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN	11	65%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	6	35%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at CR 400E on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 is 9. 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

9 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (29%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Route 9 — 2 reported incidents
• CR 400E — 1 reported incident
• South 400 East — 1 reported incident
• North 300 West — 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.