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Crossings / Texas / Austin

Austin
Texas.

Public crossings82at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates89%1 with no active device
Under a whistle ban59as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents20Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 82 public at-grade railroad crossings in Austin, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 21 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates 61 of the crossings here, 74% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 21.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (73), commuter (52), tourist/other (39) and intercity (10).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority6174%
Union Pacific Railroad Company2126%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at McNeil Merriltown on Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority is credited with 52 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 82 is 37. 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 70 mph.

Warning devices

73 of the 82 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (1%) 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

59 of the crossings (72%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 20 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • East Seventh Street — 4 reported incidents
  • Duval Road — 2 reported incidents
  • Anderson Lane — 2 reported incidents
  • Pressler Street — 1 reported incident
  • Stassney Lane — 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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