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Crossings / Indiana / Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne
Indiana.

Public crossings40at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates78%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents17Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 40 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fort Wayne, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 16 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 35 of the crossings here, 88% of the total, ahead of CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (40).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company3588%
CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN513%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Thomas Road on CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN is credited with 30 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 40 is 19. 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

31 of the 40 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (18%) 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 17 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Anthony Blvd — 3 reported incidents
  • Lumbard Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Coliseum Blvd-US24 — 2 reported incidents
  • Ferguson Road — 1 reported incident
  • Edsal Ave — 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.

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