Houston
Texas.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 347 of the crossings here, 82% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 47.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (419), intercity (67), tourist/other (3) and commuter (1).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	347	82%
BNSF Railway Company	47	11%
Port Terminal Railroad Association	24	6%
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas	3	1%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at IH-610 E Frntg on Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas is credited with 400 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 424 is 5. 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

306 of the 424 crossings carry gates and 19 have flashing lights without gates. 99 (23%) 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

64 of the crossings (15%) 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 244 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 12 deaths and 84 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Scott Street — 12 reported incidents
• Long Dr — 8 reported incidents
• Fondren Road — 8 reported incidents
• 225 Westbound Frontage Road — 7 reported incidents
• Hillcroft Avenue — 6 reported incidents

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.