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Crossings / Missouri / Springfield

Springfield
Missouri.

Public crossings92at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates25%43 with no active device
Under a whistle ban2as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 92 public at-grade railroad crossings in Springfield, MO, operated by 2 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 82 of the crossings here, 89% of the total, ahead of MISSOURI & NORTHERN ARKANSAS RAILROAD, INC. at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (92).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company8289%
MISSOURI & NORTHERN ARKANSAS RAILROAD, INC.1011%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at FM 148 on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 92 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

23 of the 92 crossings carry gates and 26 have flashing lights without gates. 43 (47%) 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

2 of the crossings (2%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 2447 W Bennett St — 2 reported incidents
  • Mustard Way — 2 reported incidents
  • 2260 W Catalpa St — 1 reported incident
  • Farm RD 243 — 1 reported incident
  • Stonecrest Ln — 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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