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Crossings / Indiana / Columbus

Columbus
Indiana.

Public crossings22at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates32%9 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 22 public at-grade railroad crossings in Columbus, IN, operated by one railroad. 5 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (22).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Dawson St on Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company is credited with 8 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 22 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 49 mph.

Warning devices

7 of the 22 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (41%) 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 2 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Indianapolis Road — 4 reported incidents
  • West CR 200 South — 1 reported incident
  • Lowell Road — 1 reported incident
  • Long Rd — 1 reported incident
  • Lafayette 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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