Laplace
Louisiana.

Who runs the track

Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 11 of the crossings here, 58% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 8.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (19) and intercity (2).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Illinois Central Railroad Company	11	58%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company	8	42%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at West Fifth Street on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 is 12. 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

11 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (32%) 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 27 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 19 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Cardinal Street — 12 reported incidents
• Walnut Street — 4 reported incidents
• Spruce Street — 3 reported incidents
• McReine Road — 3 reported incidents
• Pine Street — 2 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.