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Crossings / Texas / Laredo

Laredo
Texas.

Public crossings83at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates67%22 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents18Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 83 public at-grade railroad crossings in Laredo, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 16 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 46 of the crossings here, 55% of the total, ahead of Texas Mexican Railway Company at 36.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (83).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4655%
Texas Mexican Railway Company3643%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Lafayette Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 83 is 15. 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

56 of the 83 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 22 (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

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 18 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 10 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Uniroyal Drive — 4 reported incidents
  • San Mateo Drive — 2 reported incidents
  • Botello Road — 2 reported incidents
  • West Calton Road — 1 reported incident
  • Markley 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.

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