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Crossings / Alabama / Decatur

Decatur
Alabama.

Public crossings36at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates39%22 with no active device
Under a whistle ban1as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents18Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 36 public at-grade railroad crossings in Decatur, AL, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 29 of the crossings here, 81% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 7.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (36), intercity (2) and shared use transit (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2981%
CSX Transportation719%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Vine St on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 17 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 36 is 0. 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

14 of the 36 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 22 (61%) 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

1 of the crossings (3%) 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 18 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Joe Wheeler Hwy / US 72W — 5 reported incidents
  • 12th Ave Nw — 3 reported incidents
  • Moulton St — 2 reported incidents
  • Cedar Lake Rd Se — 2 reported incidents
  • Poole Valley 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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