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Crossings / Nebraska / Hastings

Hastings
Nebraska.

Public crossings58at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates50%27 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 58 public at-grade railroad crossings in Hastings, NE, operated by 2 railroads. 34 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 31 of the crossings here, 53% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 27.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (58) and intercity (16).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company3153%
Union Pacific Railroad Company2747%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at North Marian Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 35 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 58 is 8. 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

29 of the 58 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 27 (47%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • West A Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Co RD 82 — 1 reported incident
  • W D St — 1 reported incident
  • North Adams Central Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • North Osage Avenue — 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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