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Longview
Texas.

Public crossings41at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates61%10 with no active device
Under a whistle ban3as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents9Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 41 public at-grade railroad crossings in Longview, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 14 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 80% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 8.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (41) and intercity (14).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company3380%
BNSF Railway Company820%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at CR 3426 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 34 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 41 is 4. 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

25 of the 41 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (24%) 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

3 of the crossings (7%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • TX 149 — 2 reported incidents
  • Dancinger Road — 1 reported incident
  • East Cotton Street — 1 reported incident
  • H G Mosley Parkway — 1 reported incident
  • West Birdsong 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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