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Tolono
Illinois.

Public crossings12at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates100%0 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 12 public at-grade railroad crossings in Tolono, IL, operated by 2 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 6 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (12) and intercity (6).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Illinois Central Railroad Company650%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company650%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Philo Rd on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 19 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 12 is 19. 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

12 of the 12 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Philo Rd — 1 reported incident
  • Road 1200 East — 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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