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Crossings / Washington / Chehalis

Chehalis
Washington.

Public crossings24at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates42%13 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 24 public at-grade railroad crossings in Chehalis, WA, operated by 3 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 13 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of Chehalis Centralia Railroad & Museum at 8.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (16), tourist/other (8) and intercity (5).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company1354%
Chehalis Centralia Railroad & Museum833%
RAINIER RAIL LLC313%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Rogers Rd on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 37 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 24 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

10 of the 24 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (54%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Nw West Street — 3 reported incidents
  • John&Chehalis St — 2 reported incidents
  • Wa SR6 East — 1 reported incident
  • Spooner Road — 1 reported incident
  • 3rd Street — 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.

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