Crossings / Kentucky / Central City
Central City
Kentucky.
The federal crossing inventory lists 19 public at-grade railroad crossings in Central City, KY, operated by 3 railroads. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 13 of the crossings here, 68% of the total, ahead of Paducah & Louisville Railway Company at 3.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (16).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 13 | 68% |
| Paducah & Louisville Railway Company | 3 | 16% |
| TENNKEN RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. | 3 | 16% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at KY-1379 on Paducah & Louisville Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 19 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 35 mph.
Warning devices
3 of the 19 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (58%) 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 no reported incident at any of these crossings since 2016. That is the reporting record, not a guarantee about any crossing.
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 Kentucky cities on the inventory
- Louisville 130 crossings
- Owensboro 57 crossings
- Paducah 51 crossings
- Hazard 45 crossings
- Lexington 39 crossings
- Williamsburg 33 crossings
- Middlesboro 32 crossings
- Henderson 31 crossings