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Crossings / Kansas / Garden City

Garden City
Kansas.

Public crossings44at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates27%29 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 44 public at-grade railroad crossings in Garden City, KS, operated by 2 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

GARDEN CITY WESTERN RAILROAD operates 30 of the crossings here, 68% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (44) and intercity (13).

RailroadCrossingsShare
GARDEN CITY WESTERN RAILROAD3068%
BNSF Railway Company1432%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 9th St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 44 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

12 of the 44 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 29 (66%) 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, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 4th St — 1 reported incident
  • Main 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.

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