Fairbank
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 11 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fairbank, IA, operated by one railroad. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
Iowa Northern Railway Company operates 11 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (11).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Grove St AND 5th St on Iowa Northern Railway Company is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 11 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 10 mph.
Warning devices
0 of the 11 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 8 (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
No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.
Incident history
Form 57 records 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- T Ave — 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.
Other Iowa cities on the inventory
- Waterloo 92 crossings
- Cedar Rapids 81 crossings
- Des Moines 79 crossings
- Mason City 76 crossings
- Sioux City 57 crossings
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings