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Fostoria
Ohio.

Public crossings45at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates87%5 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 45 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fostoria, OH, operated by 2 railroads. 38 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 30 of the crossings here, 67% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 15.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45), intercity (1) and shared use transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation3067%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1533%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at S Town St on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 37 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 45 is 19. 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

39 of the 45 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (11%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Poplar St — 2 reported incidents
  • Columbus Ave — 1 reported incident
  • TR 261 — 1 reported incident
  • East Fremont Street — 1 reported incident
  • TR 262 — 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.

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