Crossings / Tennessee / Dayton
Dayton
Tennessee.
The federal crossing inventory lists 12 public at-grade railroad crossings in Dayton, TN, operated by one railroad. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 12 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (12).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Hospital Crossing on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 12 is 27. 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
10 of the 12 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (17%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Eleventh Ave — 2 reported incidents
- Iowa St — 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.
Other Tennessee cities on the inventory
- Memphis 157 crossings
- Knoxville 132 crossings
- Nashville 130 crossings
- Chattanooga 122 crossings
- Oak Ridge 49 crossings
- Jackson 44 crossings
- Morristown 44 crossings
- Lebanon 40 crossings