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Crossings / Oregon / Albany

Albany
Oregon.

Public crossings67at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates49%34 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 67 public at-grade railroad crossings in Albany, OR, operated by 3 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Portland & Western Railroad, Inc. operates 51 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (67) and intercity (10).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Portland & Western Railroad, Inc.5176%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1015%
Albany & Eastern Railroad Company69%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Queen Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 17 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 67 is 8. 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

33 of the 67 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 34 (51%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Queen Avenue — 4 reported incidents
  • Thurston Water — 1 reported incident
  • Madison Street — 1 reported incident
  • Ellingston Road — 1 reported incident
  • Beta Road — 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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