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Crossings / Texas / Jefferson

Jefferson
Texas.

Public crossings33at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates70%10 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 33 public at-grade railroad crossings in Jefferson, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 17 of the crossings here, 52% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 16.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (33) and intercity (14).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1752%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company1648%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at FM0248 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 27 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 is 7. 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

23 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (30%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Saint John Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Sarber Road — 1 reported incident
  • FM 248 — 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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