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Crossings / Texas / Beaumont

Beaumont
Texas.

Public crossings119at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates61%33 with no active device
Under a whistle ban12as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents26Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 119 public at-grade railroad crossings in Beaumont, TX, operated by 3 railroads. 17 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 56 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 56.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (119) and intercity (17).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company5647%
Union Pacific Railroad Company5647%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company76%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Todd Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 25 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 119 is 6. 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

73 of the 119 crossings carry gates and 13 have flashing lights without gates. 33 (28%) 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

12 of the crossings (10%) 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 26 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 12 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E Lucas St — 3 reported incidents
  • North Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Avenue C / Crockett — 2 reported incidents
  • South Major Drive/TX 364 — 2 reported incidents
  • Broad Oak Dr — 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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