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Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 13 of the crossings here, 72% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (18).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
BNSF Railway Company	13	72%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	5	28%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at CR 305 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 18 is 7. 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

9 of the 18 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (50%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• County Road 385 — 3 reported incidents
• White Flat Rd — 1 reported incident
• North Cherry 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.