Owatonna
Minnesota.

Who runs the track

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad operates 33 of the crossings here, 73% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad	33	73%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	12	27%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Austin Rd on Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad is credited with 6 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 45 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

19 of the 45 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 23 (51%) 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

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• SE 44th Ave — 2 reported incidents
• NW 36th St — 2 reported incidents
• Usth 14 — 1 reported incident
• Havana Rd — 1 reported incident
• 24th Ave Nw — 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.