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Crossings / Louisiana / Monroe

Monroe
Louisiana.

Public crossings87at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates31%34 with no active device
Under a whistle ban7as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents24Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 87 public at-grade railroad crossings in Monroe, LA, operated by 4 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 41 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of Arkansas Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad Company at 25.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (87).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4147%
Arkansas Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad Company2529%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1720%
Delta Southern Railroad Company45%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Chennault Park Drive on Kansas City Southern Railway Company is credited with 13 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 87 is 4. 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

27 of the 87 crossings carry gates and 26 have flashing lights without gates. 34 (39%) 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

7 of the crossings (8%) 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 24 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 15 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Oak St — 8 reported incidents
  • Desiard Street — 5 reported incidents
  • S Grand St — 2 reported incidents
  • Thomas Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • US 165 Service Rd — 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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