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Crossings / Maine / Portland

Portland
Maine.

Public crossings36at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates47%13 with no active device
Under a whistle ban20as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 36 public at-grade railroad crossings in Portland, ME, operated by 3 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 21 of the crossings here, 58% of the total, ahead of Maine Department Of Transportation at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (21), intercity (15), commuter (11) and tourist/other (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation2158%
Maine Department Of Transportation1439%
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Forest Ave on CSX Transportation is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 36 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

17 of the 36 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (36%) 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

20 of the crossings (56%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Brighton Ave — 3 reported incidents
  • Woodford St — 1 reported incident
  • Allen Ave — 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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