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Crossings / Tennessee / Memphis

Memphis
Tennessee.

Public crossings157at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates38%53 with no active device
Under a whistle ban6as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents98Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 157 public at-grade railroad crossings in Memphis, TN, operated by 7 railroads. 56 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 54 of the crossings here, 34% of the total, ahead of R. J. CORMAN RAILROAD COMPANY/TENNESSEE TERMINAL LLC at 25.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (156), intercity (28) and shared use transit (26).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Illinois Central Railroad Company5434%
R. J. CORMAN RAILROAD COMPANY/TENNESSEE TERMINAL LLC2516%
BNSF Railway Company2214%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2113%
Canadian National - North America1811%
CSX Transportation128%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Burbank on R. J. CORMAN RAILROAD COMPANY/TENNESSEE TERMINAL LLC is credited with 32 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 157 is 3. 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

60 of the 157 crossings carry gates and 44 have flashing lights without gates. 53 (34%) 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

6 of the crossings (4%) 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 98 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 deaths and 27 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Parkway Dr S — 15 reported incidents
  • Castalia St — 7 reported incidents
  • Kansas St — 6 reported incidents
  • Chelsea — 6 reported incidents
  • Pershing Avenue — 4 reported incidents

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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