Crossings / California / Sacramento
Sacramento
California.
The federal crossing inventory lists 70 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sacramento, CA, operated by 5 railroads. 18 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 35 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Sacramento County Regional Transit District at 20.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (57), transit (13), commuter (10) and intercity (7).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 35 | 50% |
| Sacramento County Regional Transit District | 20 | 29% |
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TRACTION COMPANY | 6 | 9% |
| Sacramento Valley Railroad | 6 | 9% |
| California State Railroad Museum | 3 | 4% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at S St on Sacramento County Regional Transit District is credited with 142 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 70 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 79 mph.
Warning devices
50 of the 70 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 16 (23%) 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
33 of the crossings (47%) 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 19 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 8 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Power Inn Road — 3 reported incidents
- Meadowview Road — 3 reported incidents
- Elder Creek Road — 2 reported incidents
- Fruitridge Road — 2 reported incidents
- T Street — 2 reported incidents
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 California cities on the inventory
- Los Angeles 164 crossings
- Fresno 136 crossings
- Stockton 133 crossings
- San Diego 103 crossings
- Oakland 91 crossings
- Vernon 90 crossings
- Anaheim 69 crossings
- Bakersfield 69 crossings