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Crossings / Idaho / Minidoka

Minidoka
Idaho.

Public crossings18at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates0%17 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents13Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 18 public at-grade railroad crossings in Minidoka, ID, operated by 2 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 13 of the crossings here, 72% of the total, ahead of Eastern Idaho Railroad, LLC at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (18).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1372%
Eastern Idaho Railroad, LLC528%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Irwin Ranch Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 18 is 17. 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

0 of the 18 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 17 (94%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • N 600 W — 5 reported incidents
  • 400 West — 3 reported incidents
  • 800 East — 2 reported incidents
  • Yale Road — 1 reported incident
  • 600 East — 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.

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