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Crossings / California / Visalia

Visalia
California.

Public crossings65at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates31%34 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 65 public at-grade railroad crossings in Visalia, CA, operated by 2 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company operates 44 of the crossings here, 68% of the total, ahead of Tulare Valley Railroad Company at 21.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (44).

RailroadCrossingsShare
San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company4468%
Tulare Valley Railroad Company2132%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at AV 272 on Tulare Valley Railroad Company is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 65 is 2. 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

20 of the 65 crossings carry gates and 11 have flashing lights without gates. 34 (52%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • W School Av — 2 reported incidents
  • St HWY 216 / RD 160 — 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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