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St Louis
Missouri.

Public crossings138at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates49%55 with no active device
Under a whistle ban131as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents13Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 138 public at-grade railroad crossings in St Louis, MO, operated by 9 railroads. 57 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 41 of the crossings here, 30% of the total, ahead of Terminal Railroad Association Of St. Louis at 39.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (117) and intercity (36).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4130%
Terminal Railroad Association Of St. Louis3928%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2115%
Manufacturers' Railway Company1612%
BNSF Railway Company118%
MISSOURI EASTERN RAILROAD, LLC54%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Kingshighway Service Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 138 is 4. 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

67 of the 138 crossings carry gates and 16 have flashing lights without gates. 55 (40%) 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

131 of the crossings (95%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Buchanan Hall — 2 reported incidents
  • Humboldt Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Humboldt Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Arsenal Street — 1 reported incident
  • South Broadway — 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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