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Crossings / Georgia / Dalton

Dalton
Georgia.

Public crossings32at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates75%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents19Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 32 public at-grade railroad crossings in Dalton, GA, operated by 2 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 18 of the crossings here, 56% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (32).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation1856%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1444%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Phelps Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 26 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 is 9. 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

24 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (22%) 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 19 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • W Tyler Street — 3 reported incidents
  • North Hamilton Street — 2 reported incidents
  • W Hawthorne Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Freeport Rd — 2 reported incidents
  • Hawthorne Street — 2 reported incidents

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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