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Crossings / Tennessee / Nashville

Nashville
Tennessee.

Public crossings130at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates40%50 with no active device
Under a whistle ban4as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents46Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 130 public at-grade railroad crossings in Nashville, TN, operated by 3 railroads. 38 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 63 of the crossings here, 48% of the total, ahead of Nashville & Eastern Railroad Corp at 44.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (124), commuter (12), tourist/other (12) and intercity (9).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation6348%
Nashville & Eastern Railroad Corp4434%
Nashville & Western Railroad Corporation2318%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Old Lebanon Dirt on Nashville & Eastern Railroad Corp is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 130 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

52 of the 130 crossings carry gates and 28 have flashing lights without gates. 50 (38%) 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

4 of the crossings (3%) 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 46 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 17 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • McCrory Lane — 3 reported incidents
  • Post Road — 3 reported incidents
  • Centennial Blvd — 3 reported incidents
  • 4th Ave South — 2 reported incidents
  • Layfayette US70S — 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.

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