Crossings / North Dakota / Fargo
Fargo
North Dakota.
The federal crossing inventory lists 53 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fargo, ND, operated by one railroad. 15 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 53 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (53) and intercity (7).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at 9th St Nw on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 30 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 53 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
23 of the 53 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 29 (55%) 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 (11%) 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 9 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Roberts St — 2 reported incidents
- Broadway North St — 1 reported incident
- 8th St N — 1 reported incident
- 4th Street N — 1 reported incident
- Broadway St — 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 North Dakota cities on the inventory
- Fordville 56 crossings
- Oakes 49 crossings
- Grafton 43 crossings
- Bowbells 42 crossings
- New Rockford 42 crossings
- Carrington 37 crossings
- Grand Forks 37 crossings
- Devils Lake 36 crossings