Crossings / Illinois / Decatur
Decatur
Illinois.
The federal crossing inventory lists 69 public at-grade railroad crossings in Decatur, IL, operated by 5 railroads. 11 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Illinois Central Railroad Company operates 34 of the crossings here, 49% of the total, ahead of Decatur and Eastern Illinois Railroad at 17.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (69).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois Central Railroad Company | 34 | 49% |
| Decatur and Eastern Illinois Railroad | 17 | 25% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 14 | 20% |
| Decatur Junction Railway Company | 2 | 3% |
| DECATUR CENTRAL RAIL | 2 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Martin Luther King Junior Drive on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 18 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 69 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 60 mph.
Warning devices
18 of the 69 crossings carry gates and 38 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (19%) 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 16 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- S 44th Street — 2 reported incidents
- 22nd St — 2 reported incidents
- Twenty-Seventh Street — 2 reported incidents
- Twin Bridges Road — 1 reported incident
- E Green Hill Road — 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.