Cedar Rapids
Iowa.

Who runs the track

Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Company operates 35 of the crossings here, 43% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 28.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (81).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Company	35	43%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	28	35%
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company	14	17%
Iowa Northern Railway Company	1	1%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 21st Street Southwest on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 41 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 81 is 4. 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

30 of the 81 crossings carry gates and 31 have flashing lights without gates. 20 (25%) 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

1 of the crossings (1%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• 8th Avenue Southeast — 2 reported incidents
• 42nd St — 1 reported incident
• C Street Southwest — 1 reported incident
• Otis Road Southeast — 1 reported incident
• H Ave Ne Shaver — 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.