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Litchfield
Illinois.

Public crossings38at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates50%5 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 38 public at-grade railroad crossings in Litchfield, IL, operated by 3 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 16 of the crossings here, 42% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 13.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (38).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company1642%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1334%
Litchfield Industrial Railroad924%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Tenth Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 38 is 7. 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

19 of the 38 crossings carry gates and 14 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (13%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Il RT 108 — 1 reported incident
  • Kirkham — 1 reported incident
  • Sargent 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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