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Crossings / Colorado / Denver

Denver
Colorado.

Public crossings166at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates24%121 with no active device
Under a whistle ban15as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents49Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 166 public at-grade railroad crossings in Denver, CO, operated by 6 railroads. 60 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 69 of the crossings here, 42% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 41.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (132), commuter (12), shared use transit (11) and transit (4).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company6942%
BNSF Railway Company4125%
Denver Rock Island Railroad2616%
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT -- DENVER1610%
Regional Transit District- Commuter138%
RTD Denver Union Station11%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 5th Street on REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT -- DENVER is credited with 428 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 166 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

40 of the 166 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 121 (73%) 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

15 of the crossings (9%) 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 49 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 8 deaths and 14 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • S Kalamath St — 6 reported incidents
  • Quebec Street Sbfr — 5 reported incidents
  • Quebec Street Nbfr — 3 reported incidents
  • Wheeling Street — 3 reported incidents
  • S Santa Fe Dr — 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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