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Crossings / Utah / South Salt Lake

South Salt Lake
Utah.

Public crossings16at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates56%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban7as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 16 public at-grade railroad crossings in South Salt Lake, UT, operated by 2 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Utah Transit Authority operates 10 of the crossings here, 63% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (10), transit (7), shared use transit (2) and intercity (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Utah Transit Authority1063%
Union Pacific Railroad Company638%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at SR-201/2100 South on Utah Transit Authority is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 16 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 55 mph.

Warning devices

9 of the 16 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (44%) 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

7 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 9 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • SR-171/3300 South — 2 reported incidents
  • 2950 South — 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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