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Crossings / Alabama / Satsuma

Satsuma
Alabama.

Public crossings11at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates82%2 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 11 public at-grade railroad crossings in Satsuma, AL, operated by 2 railroads. Each carries a single track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 8 of the crossings here, 73% of the total, ahead of Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway LLC at 3.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (11).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company873%
Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway LLC327%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Orange Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 11 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 11 is 11. 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 49 mph.

Warning devices

9 of the 11 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (18%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Pennsylvania Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • Bayou Avenue — 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.

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