Crossings / Michigan / Pontiac
Pontiac
Michigan.
The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in Pontiac, MI, operated by one railroad. 10 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. operates 17 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (17), intercity (15) and shared use transit (14).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at East Columbia Ave on GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. is credited with 6 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 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 45 mph.
Warning devices
11 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Woodward Ave — 2 reported incidents
- South Blvd Sanfo — 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.