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Crossings / Indiana / Gary

Gary
Indiana.

Public crossings89at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates87%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents92Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 89 public at-grade railroad crossings in Gary, IN, operated by 7 railroads. 35 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 21 of the crossings here, 24% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 19.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (72), tourist/other (17) and intercity (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2124%
CSX Transportation1921%
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District1719%
CHICAGO, FT. WAYNE & EASTERN1416%
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.1315%
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company33%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at County Line Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 74 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 89 is 6. 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

77 of the 89 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (8%) 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 92 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 20 deaths and 33 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Clark Road — 13 reported incidents
  • Grant Street — 10 reported incidents
  • Lake Street — 9 reported incidents
  • 7th Ave — 7 reported incidents
  • 5th Ave — 6 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.

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