Chesterton
Indiana.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 8 of the crossings here, 50% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 8.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (16), intercity (16) and shared use transit (2).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
CSX Transportation	8	50%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	8	50%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Fifteenth Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 74 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 16 is 31. 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

13 of the 16 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (13%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Fifteenth Street — 4 reported incidents
• County Line Road — 2 reported incidents
• Burdick Road — 2 reported incidents
• Calumet — 1 reported incident
• Road 250 East — 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.