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Crossings / Colorado / Commerce City

Commerce City
Colorado.

Public crossings30at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates50%11 with no active device
Under a whistle ban3as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents9Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 30 public at-grade railroad crossings in Commerce City, CO, operated by 3 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 60% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (30) and intercity (4).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1860%
BNSF Railway Company1137%
Denver Rock Island Railroad13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Yosemite on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 30 is 10. 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

15 of the 30 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (37%) 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

3 of the crossings (10%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Yosemite — 3 reported incidents
  • Brighton Boulevard — 1 reported incident
  • 72nd Ave — 1 reported incident
  • E 88th Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Boston St — 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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