Valparaiso
Indiana.

Who runs the track

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. operates 19 of the crossings here, 44% of the total, ahead of CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN at 17.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (43).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC.	19	44%
CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN	17	40%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	7	16%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Burge Rd/CR 725W on GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. is credited with 16 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 43 is 12. 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

33 of the 43 crossings carry gates and 7 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (7%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Calumet Ave — 2 reported incidents
• Axe Avenue — 2 reported incidents
• Union Ct Rd/625W — 1 reported incident
• CR 475W — 1 reported incident
• SR 130/Lincolnway — 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.