Paola
Kansas.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 17 of the crossings here, 65% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 9.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (26).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	17	65%
BNSF Railway Company	9	35%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at West Peoria Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 26 is 18. 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

20 of the 26 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (15%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Ridgeview Road — 1 reported incident
• West Peoria Street — 1 reported incident
• 343rd 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.