Crossings / South Dakota / Yankton
Yankton
South Dakota.
The federal crossing inventory lists 23 public at-grade railroad crossings in Yankton, SD, operated by 2 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 96% of the total, ahead of South Dakota Railroad Authority at 1.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (22).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 22 | 96% |
| South Dakota Railroad Authority | 1 | 4% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Bill Baggs Road on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 1 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 23 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 25 mph.
Warning devices
4 of the 23 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (48%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Burleigh Street — 1 reported incident
- Broadway 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 South Dakota cities on the inventory
- Sioux Falls 90 crossings
- Aberdeen 43 crossings
- Rapid City 37 crossings
- Wolsey 36 crossings
- Britton 27 crossings
- Huron 27 crossings
- Watertown 25 crossings
- Mitchell 24 crossings