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Crossings / Indiana / Muncie

Muncie
Indiana.

Public crossings63at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates76%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban6as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents26Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 63 public at-grade railroad crossings in Muncie, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 22 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 48 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 15.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (63).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company4876%
CSX Transportation1524%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Road 700 South on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 25 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 63 is 6. 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

48 of the 63 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (11%) 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

6 of the crossings (10%) 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 26 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 13 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Lincoln Street — 3 reported incidents
  • S Ohio Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Batavia Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Memorial Drive — 2 reported incidents
  • Elliott Street — 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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