Crossings / Minnesota / St Paul
St Paul
Minnesota.
The federal crossing inventory lists 66 public at-grade railroad crossings in St Paul, MN, operated by 4 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
SOO Line Railroad Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Minnesota Commercial Railway at 16.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (64), intercity (8) and shared use transit (5).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| SOO Line Railroad Company | 33 | 50% |
| Minnesota Commercial Railway | 16 | 24% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 15 | 23% |
| BNSF Railway Company | 2 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at W Como Ave on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 66 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
21 of the 66 crossings carry gates and 13 have flashing lights without gates. 32 (48%) 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
62 of the crossings (94%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Energy Park Dr — 1 reported incident
- E Plato Blvd — 1 reported incident
- W Randolph Ave — 1 reported incident
- Eagle Pkwy — 1 reported incident
- Arlington Ave — 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.
Other Minnesota cities on the inventory
- Minneapolis 76 crossings
- Crookston 55 crossings
- Duluth 49 crossings
- Owatonna 45 crossings
- Winona 44 crossings
- Moorhead 38 crossings
- Rochester 34 crossings
- Albert Lea 30 crossings