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Columbus
Mississippi.

Public crossings68at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates9%42 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents12Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 68 public at-grade railroad crossings in Columbus, MS, operated by 7 railroads. 14 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Kansas City Southern Railway Company operates 16 of the crossings here, 24% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 16.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (68).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1624%
BNSF Railway Company1624%
Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway LLC1218%
Columbus & Greenville Railway Company812%
LUXAPALILA VALLEY RAILROAD, INC.69%
Golden Triangle Railroad Company69%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Robinson Road on Golden Triangle Railroad Company is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 68 is 2. 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

6 of the 68 crossings carry gates and 20 have flashing lights without gates. 42 (62%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 14 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Hughes Rd — 6 reported incidents
  • South 4th St — 1 reported incident
  • South 8th St — 1 reported incident
  • Ms HWY 69 — 1 reported incident
  • Ridge Rd — 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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