Crossings / New York / Buffalo
Buffalo
New York.
The federal crossing inventory lists 23 public at-grade railroad crossings in Buffalo, NY, operated by 3 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 10 of the crossings here, 43% of the total, ahead of Niagara Falls Transit Authority at 9.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (14) and intercity (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 10 | 43% |
| Niagara Falls Transit Authority | 9 | 39% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 4 | 17% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Church St on Niagara Falls Transit Authority is credited with 85 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 23 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
3 of the 23 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 20 (87%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Exchange 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 New York cities on the inventory
- Dunkirk 27 crossings
- Rochester 26 crossings
- Hamburg 22 crossings
- New York-Kings 22 crossings
- Phelps 21 crossings
- Plattsburgh 21 crossings
- Ripley 21 crossings
- Owego 19 crossings