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Crossings / Texas / San Antonio

San Antonio
Texas.

Public crossings208at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates81%35 with no active device
Under a whistle ban77as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents98Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 208 public at-grade railroad crossings in San Antonio, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 47 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 207 of the crossings here, 100% of the total, ahead of Department Of Defense - Other at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (207) and intercity (91).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company207100%
Department Of Defense - Other10%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Probandt Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 40 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 208 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

169 of the 208 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 35 (17%) 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

77 of the crossings (37%) 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 98 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 13 deaths and 26 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • IH0035 0Southbound Frontage — 13 reported incidents
  • West Martin Street — 9 reported incidents
  • South Zarzamora Street — 6 reported incidents
  • Probandt Street — 4 reported incidents
  • Tejasco Drive — 3 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.

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