Crossings / California / San Francisco
San Francisco
California.
The federal crossing inventory lists 20 public at-grade railroad crossings in San Francisco, CA, operated by 5 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 8 of the crossings here, 40% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 6.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (9) and commuter (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 8 | 40% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 6 | 30% |
| MUNI - Municipal Transportation Agency | 3 | 15% |
| Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board - Caltrain | 2 | 10% |
| San Francisco Bay Railway LLC | 1 | 5% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at 16th Street on Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board - Caltrain is credited with 112 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 20 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
4 of the 20 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 12 (60%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- 16th Street — 3 reported incidents
- Quint Street — 2 reported incidents
- Mission Bay Drive — 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
- Sacramento 70 crossings
- Anaheim 69 crossings