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Crossings / Wisconsin / Oshkosh

Oshkosh
Wisconsin.

Public crossings47at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates66%12 with no active device
Under a whistle ban33as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents11Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 47 public at-grade railroad crossings in Oshkosh, WI, operated by 2 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. operates 36 of the crossings here, 77% of the total, ahead of WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (47).

RailroadCrossingsShare
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.3677%
WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC1123%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 14th Ave on WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. is credited with 30 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 47 is 30. 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

31 of the 47 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 12 (26%) 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

33 of the crossings (70%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 deaths and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Washington Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Otter Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Waugoo Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Harrison St — 1 reported incident
  • Main St — 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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