Crossings / Illinois / Carbondale
Carbondale
Illinois.
The federal crossing inventory lists 10 public at-grade railroad crossings in Carbondale, IL, operated by one railroad. 6 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 10 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (10) and intercity (8).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Dillinger Rd on Illinois Central Railroad Company is credited with 14 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 10 is 14. 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 79 mph.
Warning devices
8 of the 10 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. 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 3 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.
- N Illinois Ave — 1 reported incident
- E Oak St — 1 reported incident
- Main St — 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.