Crossings / Tennessee / Covington
Covington
Tennessee.
The federal crossing inventory lists 10 public at-grade railroad crossings in Covington, TN, operated by one railroad. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 10 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (10), intercity (10) and shared use transit (10).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Rialto Road on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 10 is 21. 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
10 of the 10 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Industrial — 1 reported incident
- East Liberty 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.
Other Tennessee cities on the inventory
- Memphis 157 crossings
- Knoxville 132 crossings
- Nashville 130 crossings
- Chattanooga 122 crossings
- Oak Ridge 49 crossings
- Jackson 44 crossings
- Morristown 44 crossings
- Lebanon 40 crossings