Crossings / North Carolina / Cary
Cary
North Carolina.
The federal crossing inventory lists 15 public at-grade railroad crossings in Cary, NC, operated by 2 railroads. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 13 of the crossings here, 87% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 2.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (15), intercity (11) and shared use transit (3).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 13 | 87% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 2 | 13% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Trinity Road on CSX Transportation is credited with 19 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 15 is 5. 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
15 of the 15 crossings carry gates and 0 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Northeast Maynard Road — 1 reported incident
- Harrison Avenue — 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 North Carolina cities on the inventory
- Charlotte 140 crossings
- Fayetteville 95 crossings
- Greensboro 62 crossings
- Goldsboro 56 crossings
- Lumberton 52 crossings
- Wilmington 47 crossings
- Durham 46 crossings
- Gastonia 45 crossings