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Hattiesburg
Mississippi.

Public crossings48at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates65%12 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 48 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hattiesburg, MS, operated by 3 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 26 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (48) and intercity (9).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Illinois Central Railroad Company2654%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1123%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1123%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Mobile Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 25 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 48 is 10. 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

31 of the 48 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 12 (25%) 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, involving 2 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Dixie Pine Rd — 1 reported incident
  • James St — 1 reported incident
  • Southern Ave — 1 reported incident
  • E Front — 1 reported incident
  • Mobile Street — 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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