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Crossings / Louisiana / Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge
Louisiana.

Public crossings104at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates38%41 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents82Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 104 public at-grade railroad crossings in Baton Rouge, LA, operated by 3 railroads. 17 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kansas City Southern Railway Company operates 54 of the crossings here, 52% of the total, ahead of Illinois Central Railroad Company at 46.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (104).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kansas City Southern Railway Company5452%
Illinois Central Railroad Company4644%
Baton Rouge Southern Railroad44%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at W Roosevelt St on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 104 is 7. 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 49 mph.

Warning devices

40 of the 104 crossings carry gates and 23 have flashing lights without gates. 41 (39%) 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 82 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 14 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Airline Hwy — 13 reported incidents
  • Plank Road — 5 reported incidents
  • N Foster Drive — 5 reported incidents
  • Government Street — 4 reported incidents
  • N Ardenwood Dr — 3 reported incidents

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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