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Crossings / Florida / West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach
Florida.

Public crossings56at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates98%1 with no active device
Under a whistle ban46as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents46Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 56 public at-grade railroad crossings in West Palm Beach, FL, operated by 3 railroads. 48 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Florida East Coast Railway Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of South Florida Regional Transportation Authority at 19.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (56), intercity (45), commuter (13) and shared use transit (4).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Florida East Coast Railway Company3359%
South Florida Regional Transportation Authority1934%
CSX Transportation47%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 45th St on South Florida Regional Transportation Authority is credited with 69 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 56 is 46. 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 89 mph.

Warning devices

55 of the 56 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (2%) 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

46 of the crossings (82%) 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 46 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 23 deaths and 12 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Palm Beach Lakes Blvd — 5 reported incidents
  • Old Okeechobee Rd — 5 reported incidents
  • Clematis St — 4 reported incidents
  • Belvedere Rd — 3 reported incidents
  • 23rd St — 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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