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Crossings / Michigan / Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo
Michigan.

Public crossings85at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates47%16 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents11Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 85 public at-grade railroad crossings in Kalamazoo, MI, operated by 3 railroads. 21 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Grand Elk Railroad, LLC operates 50 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) at 21.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (64) and intercity (21).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Grand Elk Railroad, LLC5059%
Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation)2125%
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC.1416%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ts Avenue on GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 85 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 95 mph.

Warning devices

40 of the 85 crossings carry gates and 29 have flashing lights without gates. 16 (19%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Harrison Street — 3 reported incidents
  • Kilgore Rd/Aka N — 2 reported incidents
  • Eleventh Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Sprinkle Road — 1 reported incident
  • Vine 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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