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Crossings / Minnesota / Moorhead

Moorhead
Minnesota.

Public crossings38at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates42%19 with no active device
Under a whistle ban7as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents10Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 38 public at-grade railroad crossings in Moorhead, MN, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 28 of the crossings here, 74% of the total, ahead of OTTER TAIL VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (38) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company2874%
OTTER TAIL VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.1026%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 14th St S on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 19 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 38 is 2. 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

16 of the 38 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 19 (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

7 of the crossings (18%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 14th St S — 2 reported incidents
  • 80th Ave S — 1 reported incident
  • 8th St — 1 reported incident
  • 8th St — 1 reported incident
  • 2nd Ave N — 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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