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Crossings / Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania.

Public crossings37at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates19%22 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 37 public at-grade railroad crossings in Pittsburgh, PA, operated by 4 railroads. 9 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Allegheny Valley Railroad Company operates 29 of the crossings here, 78% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 4.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (36), intercity (2) and shared use transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Allegheny Valley Railroad Company2978%
CSX Transportation411%
Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad Company, The38%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Haysglen Rd on CSX Transportation is credited with 12 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 37 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

7 of the 37 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 22 (59%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • South 4th St — 2 reported incidents
  • Kutz Road — 1 reported incident
  • 18th 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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