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Who runs the track

MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY (D.B.A. - NAPOLEON, DEFIANCE & WESTERN RAILWAY) operates 15 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (28).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY (D.B.A. - NAPOLEON, DEFIANCE & WESTERN RAILWAY)	15	54%
CSX Transportation	13	46%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ravine Avenue on CSX Transportation is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 28 is 2. 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

14 of the 28 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (36%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Hire Road — 1 reported incident
• Squires Ave — 1 reported incident
• Ottawa 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.