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Crossings / Michigan / Saginaw

Saginaw
Michigan.

Public crossings72at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates25%14 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 72 public at-grade railroad crossings in Saginaw, MI, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Lake State Railway Company operates 49 of the crossings here, 68% of the total, ahead of Huron & Eastern Railway at 23.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (72).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Lake State Railway Company4968%
Huron & Eastern Railway2332%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Janes Ave on Lake State Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 72 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 25 mph.

Warning devices

18 of the 72 crossings carry gates and 40 have flashing lights without gates. 14 (19%) 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 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.

  • North Towerline Road — 1 reported incident
  • South Jefferson Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • South Water Street — 1 reported incident
  • North Niagara Street — 1 reported incident
  • Williams 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.

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