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Sulphur
Louisiana.

Public crossings22at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates59%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 22 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sulphur, LA, operated by 3 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 11 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (22) and intercity (10).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1150%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1045%
Timberrock Railroad Company, LLC15%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Coach Williams Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 13 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 22 is 3. 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

13 of the 22 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (27%) 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

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Crocker Street — 2 reported incidents
  • East Houston River Road — 1 reported incident
  • Pete Manena Rd — 1 reported incident
  • North Claiborne Street — 1 reported incident
  • LA 1133 — 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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