Crossings / Pennsylvania / Allentown
Allentown
Pennsylvania.
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).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 15 | 88% |
| R. J. Corman Railroad Co./Allentown Lines, Inc. | 2 | 12% |
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.
Other Pennsylvania cities on the inventory
- Philadelphia 101 crossings
- York 65 crossings
- Hanover 43 crossings
- Pittsburgh 37 crossings
- Wilkes Barre 37 crossings
- Greenville 33 crossings
- Erie 31 crossings
- Upper Darby 30 crossings