Crossings / Wisconsin / Madison
Madison
Wisconsin.
The federal crossing inventory lists 85 public at-grade railroad crossings in Madison, WI, operated by 2 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC operates 77 of the crossings here, 91% of the total, ahead of SOO Line Railroad Company at 8.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (85).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC | 77 | 91% |
| SOO Line Railroad Company | 8 | 9% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Blair/Williamson Street on WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC is credited with 6 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 85 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
43 of the 85 crossings carry gates and 30 have flashing lights without gates. 12 (14%) 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
23 of the crossings (27%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- East Johnson Street — 1 reported incident
- Lakeside Street — 1 reported incident
- Charter Street — 1 reported incident
- Whitney Way — 1 reported incident
- Nelson Rd — 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.