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Crossings / Indiana / Griffith

Griffith
Indiana.

Public crossings11at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates91%1 with no active device
Under a whistle ban8as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 11 public at-grade railroad crossings in Griffith, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 11 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. operates 8 of the crossings here, 73% of the total, ahead of GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC. at 3.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (11).

RailroadCrossingsShare
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.873%
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC.327%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Broad St on WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. is credited with 32 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 11 is 32. 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

10 of the 11 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (9%) 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

8 of the crossings (73%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 6 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Broad St — 4 reported incidents
  • Elm 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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