Crossings / Iowa / Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 32 public at-grade railroad crossings in Cedar Falls, IA, operated by 3 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Iowa Northern Railway Company operates 23 of the crossings here, 72% of the total, ahead of Cedar River Railroad Company at 5.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (32).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Iowa Northern Railway Company | 23 | 72% |
| Cedar River Railroad Company | 5 | 16% |
| Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company | 4 | 13% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Independence St on Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 is 0. 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 50 mph.
Warning devices
4 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 11 have flashing lights without gates. 17 (53%) 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.
- Center 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.
Other Iowa cities on the inventory
- Waterloo 92 crossings
- Cedar Rapids 81 crossings
- Des Moines 79 crossings
- Mason City 76 crossings
- Sioux City 57 crossings
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings