Independence
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Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 38 of the crossings here, 84% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 7.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45) and intercity (14).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	38	84%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company	7	16%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at East Kentucky Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 18 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 45 is 4. 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 70 mph.

Warning devices

21 of the 45 crossings carry gates and 10 have flashing lights without gates. 14 (31%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Harvard Avenue — 1 reported incident
• East Walnut Street — 1 reported incident
• South Arlington Avenue — 1 reported incident
• East Wilson Road — 1 reported incident
• Sterling Avenue — 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.