San Jose
California.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 42 of the crossings here, 78% of the total, ahead of SANTA CLARA VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (54), intercity (10), transit (10) and commuter (2).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	42	78%
SANTA CLARA VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY	10	19%
Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board - Caltrain	2	4%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Dupont Street on SANTA CLARA VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY is credited with 132 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 54 is 7. 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

45 of the 54 crossings carry gates and 9 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

24 of the crossings (44%) 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 29 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 9 deaths and 12 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Branham Lane — 4 reported incidents
• Parkmoor Ave — 3 reported incidents
• Stokes Ave — 3 reported incidents
• Bascom Ave — 3 reported incidents
• Chynoweth Av — 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.