Des Moines
Iowa.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 34 of the crossings here, 43% of the total, ahead of Iowa Interstate Railroad at 25.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (77).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	34	43%
Iowa Interstate Railroad	25	32%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	19	24%
BNSF Railway Company	1	1%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Dean Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 12 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 79 is 3. 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

30 of the 79 crossings carry gates and 23 have flashing lights without gates. 26 (33%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• E 18th Street — 2 reported incidents
• SW 4th St — 1 reported incident
• Hubbell Avenue — 1 reported incident
• Northeast 22nd Street — 1 reported incident
• Park 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.