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Crossings / Maryland / Hagerstown

Hagerstown
Maryland.

Public crossings29at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates31%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban15as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents17Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 29 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hagerstown, MD, operated by 2 railroads. Each carries a single track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 28 of the crossings here, 97% of the total, ahead of Winchester & Western Railroad Company at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (29).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation2897%
Winchester & Western Railroad Company13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Trovinger Mill Road on CSX Transportation is credited with 3 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 29 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

9 of the 29 crossings carry gates and 13 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (24%) 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

15 of the crossings (52%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 17 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Potomac Street — 3 reported incidents
  • Forest Drive — 3 reported incidents
  • Potomac Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Prospect St — 2 reported incidents
  • E Wilson Blvd — 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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