Elkhart
Indiana.

Who runs the track

ELKHART & WESTERN RAILROAD CO. operates 16 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (26) and intercity (3).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
ELKHART & WESTERN RAILROAD CO.	16	59%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	10	37%
GE RAILCAR REPAIR SERVICES	1	4%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Lusher Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 64 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

10 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Main Street — 5 reported incidents
• Lusher Avenue — 1 reported incident
• Lusher Avenue — 1 reported incident
• Edwardsburg 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.