Crossings / New Mexico / Melrose
Melrose
New Mexico.
The federal crossing inventory lists 15 public at-grade railroad crossings in Melrose, NM, operated by one railroad. 15 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (15).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at N Roosevelt Rd Av on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 72 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 15 is 62. 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
4 of the 15 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (73%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- N Roosevelt Rd Av — 2 reported incidents
- NM 267 — 1 reported incident
- S 7th St — 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.