Crossings / Iowa / Webster City
Webster City
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 26 public at-grade railroad crossings in Webster City, IA, operated by 2 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 58% of the total, ahead of Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company at 11.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (26).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 15 | 58% |
| Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company | 11 | 42% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Harris Dr on Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 7 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 26 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 50 mph.
Warning devices
5 of the 26 crossings carry gates and 11 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (38%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- McMurray Ave — 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.
Other Iowa cities on the inventory
- Waterloo 92 crossings
- Cedar Rapids 81 crossings
- Des Moines 79 crossings
- Mason City 76 crossings
- Sioux City 57 crossings
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings