Modesto
California.

Who runs the track

Modesto & Empire Traction Company operates 32 of the crossings here, 60% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 20.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (53) and intercity (1).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Modesto & Empire Traction Company	32	60%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	20	38%
BNSF Railway Company	1	2%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Milnes Rd on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 53 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

39 of the 53 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (19%) 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 29 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 7 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• I Street — 8 reported incidents
• B Street — 3 reported incidents
• Empire Avenue — 3 reported incidents
• Riverside Drive North — 3 reported incidents
• Dakota 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.