Crossings / Virginia / Emporia
Emporia
Virginia.
The federal crossing inventory lists 36 public at-grade railroad crossings in Emporia, VA, operated by 3 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
CSX Transportation operates 20 of the crossings here, 56% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 15.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (35), intercity (18) and shared use transit (4).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CSX Transportation | 20 | 56% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 15 | 42% |
| Toll Integrated Systems | 1 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Liberty Road on CSX Transportation is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 36 is 8. 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
18 of the 36 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 16 (44%) 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
6 of the crossings (17%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Low Ground Road — 2 reported incidents
- Grigg Avenue — 2 reported incidents
- Rolling Acres Road — 1 reported incident
- Jarrett Avenue — 1 reported incident
- Mayes 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.
Other Virginia cities on the inventory
- Richmond 64 crossings
- Chesapeake 57 crossings
- Suffolk 47 crossings
- Norfolk 46 crossings
- Harrisonburg 43 crossings
- Winchester 41 crossings
- Hopewell 33 crossings
- Portsmouth 26 crossings