Waterloo
Iowa.

Who runs the track

Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company operates 64 of the crossings here, 70% of the total, ahead of WATERLOO RAILROAD, LLC at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (92).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company	64	70%
WATERLOO RAILROAD, LLC	14	15%
Iowa Northern Railway Company	14	15%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E 4th St on Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 11 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 92 is 4. 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

19 of the 92 crossings carry gates and 23 have flashing lights without gates. 50 (54%) 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 27 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 8 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Columbia St — 4 reported incidents
• W 18th St — 3 reported incidents
• Broadway E Of Bur — 2 reported incidents
• Willow St — 2 reported incidents
• North Elk Run Road — 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.