Crossings / Texas / Fort Worth
Fort Worth
Texas.
The federal crossing inventory lists 171 public at-grade railroad crossings in Fort Worth, TX, operated by 7 railroads. 37 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Fort Worth & Western Railroad operates 58 of the crossings here, 34% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 54.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (163), intercity (31), commuter (22) and tourist/other (17).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth & Western Railroad | 58 | 34% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 54 | 32% |
| BNSF Railway Company | 30 | 18% |
| TRINITY RAILWAY EXPRESS | 13 | 8% |
| Tex Rail | 10 | 6% |
| Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad | 5 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Decatur Avenue on Tex Rail is credited with 80 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 171 is 10. 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
139 of the 171 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 26 (15%) 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
47 of the crossings (27%) 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 70 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 9 deaths and 29 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Riverside Drive — 5 reported incidents
- Biddison Avenue — 4 reported incidents
- West Biddison Street — 4 reported incidents
- Hicks Field Road — 4 reported incidents
- Decatur Avenue — 3 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.