Crossings / Montana
Montana
crossings.
Cities3510+ crossings each
Public crossings557at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates24%342 with no active device
Reported incidents39Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 557 public at-grade crossings across the 35 Montana cities with at least ten of them. Billings has the most at 51.
BNSF Railway Company operates the most of them at 443, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 26.
61% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 24% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Montana city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billings | Yellowstone | 51 | 24% | 3 | 12 |
| Great Falls | Cascade | 38 | 32% | 0 | 0 |
| Butte | Silver Bow | 29 | 7% | 0 | 0 |
| Missoula | Missoula | 29 | 7% | 0 | 3 |
| Miles City | Custer | 23 | 39% | 0 | 0 |
| Helena | Lewis And Clark | 22 | 50% | 6 | 3 |
| Dillon | Beaverhead | 21 | 24% | 0 | 1 |
| Moccasin | Judith Basin | 19 | 5% | 0 | 2 |
| Livingston | Park | 16 | 31% | 0 | 1 |
| Raymond | Sheridan | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Valier | Pondera | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Anaconda | Deer Lodge | 15 | 13% | 0 | 0 |
| Sidney | Richland | 15 | 33% | 0 | 0 |
| Havre | Hill | 14 | 36% | 0 | 1 |
| Choteau | Teton | 13 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Glendive | Dawson | 13 | 31% | 1 | 0 |
| Hysham | Treasure | 13 | 46% | 0 | 0 |
| Laurel | Yellowstone | 13 | 62% | 0 | 0 |
| Hobson | Judith Basin | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Bainville | Roosevelt | 11 | 64% | 0 | 6 |
| Ballantine | Yellowstone | 11 | 18% | 0 | 0 |
| Denton | Fergus | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Dutton | Teton | 11 | 9% | 0 | 0 |
| Fairview | Richland | 11 | 18% | 0 | 0 |
| Harlem | Blaine | 11 | 18% | 0 | 2 |
| Libby | Lincoln | 11 | 27% | 1 | 0 |
| Superior | Mineral | 11 | 55% | 0 | 0 |
| Whitehall | Jefferson | 11 | 9% | 0 | 0 |
| Broadview | Yellowstone | 10 | 20% | 0 | 1 |
| Chinook | Blaine | 10 | 70% | 0 | 1 |
| Fairfield | Teton | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Frenchtown | Missoula | 10 | 70% | 0 | 2 |
| Hamilton | Ravalli | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Hardin | Big Horn | 10 | 50% | 0 | 4 |
| Power | Teton | 10 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.