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Crossings / Indiana / Hammond

Hammond
Indiana.

Public crossings57at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates88%4 with no active device
Under a whistle ban8as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents41Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 57 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hammond, IN, operated by 5 railroads. 42 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 20 of the crossings here, 35% of the total, ahead of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (42), commuter (8), tourist/other (6) and intercity (2).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Norfolk Southern Railway Company2035%
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District1425%
CSX Transportation1018%
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company1018%
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.24%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Calumet Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 61 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 57 is 16. 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

50 of the 57 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (7%) 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 (14%) 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 41 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 12 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Calumet Avenue — 6 reported incidents
  • Sibley Street — 4 reported incidents
  • Calumet Avenue — 4 reported incidents
  • Torrence Ave — 3 reported incidents
  • Columbia 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.

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