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Westlake
Louisiana.

Public crossings27at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates22%12 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents10Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 27 public at-grade railroad crossings in Westlake, LA, operated by 4 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kansas City Southern Railway Company operates 14 of the crossings here, 52% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (27) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1452%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1037%
PORT RAIL INC27%
Timberrock Railroad Company, LLC14%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Sampson Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 13 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 is 0. 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

6 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 9 have flashing lights without gates. 12 (44%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Davison Road — 3 reported incidents
  • Trousdale Road — 2 reported incidents
  • Sampson Street — 1 reported incident
  • New Trousdale Road — 1 reported incident
  • Sampson Street — 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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