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Crossings / Oklahoma / Tulsa

Tulsa
Oklahoma.

Public crossings124at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates45%54 with no active device
Under a whistle ban5as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents25Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 124 public at-grade railroad crossings in Tulsa, OK, operated by 6 railroads. 20 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 39 of the crossings here, 31% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 30.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (99).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company3931%
Union Pacific Railroad Company3024%
Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway Company LLC2117%
Sand Springs Railway Company1714%
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad Company1411%
Osage Railroad32%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E Pine St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 124 is 1. 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

56 of the 124 crossings carry gates and 14 have flashing lights without gates. 54 (44%) 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

5 of the crossings (4%) 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 25 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 11 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Southwest Blvd — 6 reported incidents
  • Harvard Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Cheyenne Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Elwood Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • S 33rd W Ave — 2 reported incidents

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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