Crossings / North Carolina / Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount
North Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 37 public at-grade railroad crossings in Rocky Mount, NC, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 20 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of CAROLINA COASTAL RAILWAY, INC. at 17.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (37), intercity (10) and shared use transit (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 20 | 54% |
| CAROLINA COASTAL RAILWAY, INC. | 17 | 46% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Bassett Street on CSX Transportation is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 37 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 79 mph.
Warning devices
35 of the 37 crossings carry gates and 2 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
7 of the crossings (19%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Tarboro Road — 2 reported incidents
- Thomas Street — 2 reported incidents
- Bassett Street — 1 reported incident
- Grand Avenue — 1 reported incident
- Goldleaf 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.
Other North Carolina cities on the inventory
- Charlotte 140 crossings
- Fayetteville 95 crossings
- Greensboro 62 crossings
- Goldsboro 56 crossings
- Lumberton 52 crossings
- Wilmington 47 crossings
- Durham 46 crossings
- Gastonia 45 crossings