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Crossings / Idaho / Caldwell

Caldwell
Idaho.

Public crossings33at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates27%17 with no active device
Under a whistle ban7as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 33 public at-grade railroad crossings in Caldwell, ID, operated by 2 railroads. 11 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 17 of the crossings here, 52% of the total, ahead of Boise Valley Railroad, LLC at 16.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (33).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1752%
Boise Valley Railroad, LLC1648%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Hoffman Lane on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 is 2. 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

9 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 7 have flashing lights without gates. 17 (52%) 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

7 of the crossings (21%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Look Lane — 3 reported incidents
  • Midland Boulevard — 1 reported incident
  • Twenty First Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Paynter Ave — 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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