Merced
California.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 56% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (27) and intercity (12).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	15	56%
BNSF Railway Company	12	44%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at R St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 29 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 is 14. 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

26 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (4%) 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 19 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 8 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• U Street — 3 reported incidents
• V Street — 3 reported incidents
• Glen Ave — 2 reported incidents
• R St — 2 reported incidents
• Gerard Avenue — 2 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.