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Crossings / Minnesota / Winona

Winona
Minnesota.

Public crossings44at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates34%28 with no active device
Under a whistle ban15as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 44 public at-grade railroad crossings in Winona, MN, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

SOO Line Railroad Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 75% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (44), intercity (32), commuter (15) and shared use transit (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
SOO Line Railroad Company3375%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1125%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ewing St on SOO Line Railroad Company is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 44 is 20. 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 65 mph.

Warning devices

15 of the 44 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 28 (64%) 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

15 of the crossings (34%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • S Baker St — 2 reported incidents
  • Carimona St — 1 reported incident
  • Huff St — 1 reported incident
  • Bierce St — 1 reported incident
  • Wall St — 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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