Crossings / Indiana / East Chicago
East Chicago
Indiana.
The federal crossing inventory lists 35 public at-grade railroad crossings in East Chicago, IN, operated by 4 railroads. 21 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company operates 13 of the crossings here, 37% of the total, ahead of WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. at 11.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (34), intercity (1) and shared use transit (1).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company | 13 | 37% |
| WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. | 11 | 31% |
| CSX Transportation | 10 | 29% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 1 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Baring Ave on CSX Transportation is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 35 is 4. 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
21 of the 35 crossings carry gates and 13 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (3%) 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 12 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 deaths and 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Euclid Avenue — 3 reported incidents
- Baring Ave — 2 reported incidents
- Indianapolis Boulevard — 1 reported incident
- Tod Ave — 1 reported incident
- Kennedy Avenue — 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.
Other Indiana cities on the inventory
- Indianapolis 167 crossings
- Terre Haute 107 crossings
- Evansville 98 crossings
- Gary 89 crossings
- Anderson 81 crossings
- Kokomo 77 crossings
- Michigan City 72 crossings
- Muncie 63 crossings