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Crossings / Arkansas / Little Rock

Little Rock
Arkansas.

Public crossings54at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates28%24 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents11Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 54 public at-grade railroad crossings in Little Rock, AR, operated by 3 railroads. 14 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 32 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of Little Rock Port Railroad Company at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (54) and intercity (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company3259%
Little Rock Port Railroad Company1426%
Little Rock & Western Railway, L.P.59%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Patterson Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 27 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 54 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

15 of the 54 crossings carry gates and 15 have flashing lights without gates. 24 (44%) 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 1 death and 9 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 65th Street — 2 reported incidents
  • I 30 Frontage Road — 2 reported incidents
  • Springer Boulevard — 2 reported incidents
  • 3M Road — 1 reported incident
  • Forbing Road — 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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