Crossings / Wisconsin / Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
The federal crossing inventory lists 83 public at-grade railroad crossings in Milwaukee, WI, operated by 4 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 30 of the crossings here, 36% of the total, ahead of Port Of Milwaukee at 27.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (56), intercity (5) and shared use transit (5).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 30 | 36% |
| Port Of Milwaukee | 27 | 33% |
| WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC | 15 | 18% |
| SOO Line Railroad Company | 11 | 13% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Waterford Ave on SOO Line Railroad Company is credited with 36 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 83 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
25 of the 83 crossings carry gates and 15 have flashing lights without gates. 43 (52%) 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
2 of the crossings (2%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- 91st Street — 4 reported incidents
- Greves Street — 2 reported incidents
- W Greenfield Ave — 1 reported incident
- Hilbert St — 1 reported incident
- Cameron Avenue — 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.