Crossings / Indiana / Lafayette
Lafayette
Indiana.
The federal crossing inventory lists 26 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lafayette, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 69% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 8.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (26), intercity (5) and shared use transit (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 18 | 69% |
| CSX Transportation | 8 | 31% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Concord Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 12 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 26 is 0. 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
9 of the 26 crossings carry gates and 10 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (27%) 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
5 of the crossings (19%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Wabash Av Beck Ln — 2 reported incidents
- Wabash Ave — 1 reported incident
- CR 275S — 1 reported incident
- Ninth Street — 1 reported incident
- Beck Lane — 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.
Other Indiana cities on the inventory
- Indianapolis 167 crossings
- Terre Haute 107 crossings
- Evansville 98 crossings
- Gary 89 crossings
- Anderson 81 crossings
- Kokomo 77 crossings
- Michigan City 72 crossings
- Muncie 63 crossings