Council Bluffs
Iowa.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 21 of the crossings here, 38% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 18.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (55).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	21	38%
BNSF Railway Company	18	32%
Iowa Interstate Railroad	9	16%
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company	7	13%
Non-regulated Industry	1	2%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Lime Kiln Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 56 is 1. 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

24 of the 56 crossings carry gates and 9 have flashing lights without gates. 23 (41%) 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. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• 2nd Ave — 2 reported incidents
• Avenue B — 1 reported incident
• Gilliat Ave — 1 reported incident
• South 35th Street — 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.