Hobart
Indiana.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 9 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (19).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	9	47%
CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN	6	32%
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC.	4	21%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 69th St on GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 is 11. 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

19 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• SR 51/Grand Blvd — 1 reported incident
• Indiana 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.