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Palmetto
Florida.

Public crossings34at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates38%17 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 34 public at-grade railroad crossings in Palmetto, FL, operated by 2 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 26 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of Port Of Manatee at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (34).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation2676%
Port Of Manatee13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Piney Point Road on Port Of Manatee is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 34 is 0. 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

13 of the 34 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 17 (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

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

Incident history

Form 57 records 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 2nd Ave W — 1 reported incident
  • Fifth Avenue West — 1 reported incident
  • 49th Street E — 1 reported incident
  • Bayshore Road — 1 reported incident
  • Lavender Rd — 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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