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Crossings / Minnesota / St Paul

St Paul
Minnesota.

Public crossings66at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates32%32 with no active device
Under a whistle ban62as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

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).

RailroadCrossingsShare
SOO Line Railroad Company3350%
Minnesota Commercial Railway1624%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1523%
BNSF Railway Company23%

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.

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