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Crossings / Pennsylvania / Allentown

Allentown
Pennsylvania.

Public crossings17at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates18%10 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents9Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in Allentown, PA, operated by 2 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 88% of the total, ahead of R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Allentown Lines, Inc. at 2.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (17).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1588%
R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Allentown Lines, Inc.212%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Thirty-First Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 29 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 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 150 mph.

Warning devices

3 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (59%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Ruppsville Road — 5 reported incidents
  • Twelfth Street/Vultee Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Canal Road — 1 reported incident
  • Thirty-First 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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