Crossings / South Dakota / Elk Point
Elk Point
South Dakota.
The federal crossing inventory lists 14 public at-grade railroad crossings in Elk Point, SD, operated by 2 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 10 of the crossings here, 71% of the total, ahead of D & I Railroad Company at 4.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (14).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 10 | 71% |
| D & I Railroad Company | 4 | 29% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Rose Street on D & I Railroad Company is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 14 is 1. 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
4 of the 14 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (64%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Walnut Street — 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 South Dakota cities on the inventory
- Sioux Falls 90 crossings
- Aberdeen 43 crossings
- Rapid City 37 crossings
- Wolsey 36 crossings
- Britton 27 crossings
- Huron 27 crossings
- Watertown 25 crossings
- Mitchell 24 crossings