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Crossings / Mississippi / Jackson

Jackson
Mississippi.

Public crossings36at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates53%9 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents32Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 36 public at-grade railroad crossings in Jackson, MS, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kansas City Southern Railway Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Illinois Central Railroad Company at 18.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (35) and intercity (7).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1850%
Illinois Central Railroad Company1850%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Greens Crossing Rd on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 17 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 36 is 8. 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

19 of the 36 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (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 32 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 22 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Parkside Place — 6 reported incidents
  • Northside Dr — 5 reported incidents
  • Beasley Rd — 4 reported incidents
  • Livingston Rd — 4 reported incidents
  • Northside Dr — 3 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.

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