Charlotte
North Carolina.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 76 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 48.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (137) and intercity (7).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	76	54%
CSX Transportation	48	34%
Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railroad	12	9%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Back Creek Church Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 140 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

84 of the 140 crossings carry gates and 17 have flashing lights without gates. 39 (28%) 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

2 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 51 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 12 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• McClean Road/SR 2831 — 5 reported incidents
• Back Creek Church Road — 3 reported incidents
• Atando Avenue — 3 reported incidents
• E Hebron Street — 3 reported incidents
• Pete Brown Road — 3 reported incidents

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.