Crossings / Tennessee / Johnson City
Johnson City
Tennessee.
The federal crossing inventory lists 36 public at-grade railroad crossings in Johnson City, TN, operated by 3 railroads. 7 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 21 of the crossings here, 58% of the total, ahead of East Tennessee Railway, L.P. at 12.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (36).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 21 | 58% |
| East Tennessee Railway, L.P. | 12 | 33% |
| CSX Transportation | 3 | 8% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Spencer Smith Road on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 9 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 36 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 60 mph.
Warning devices
19 of the 36 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 14 (39%) 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 13 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Roan St — 3 reported incidents
- Sevier St — 2 reported incidents
- Emory Lane — 2 reported incidents
- Embreville Road — 1 reported incident
- Market 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.
Other Tennessee cities on the inventory
- Memphis 157 crossings
- Knoxville 132 crossings
- Nashville 130 crossings
- Chattanooga 122 crossings
- Oak Ridge 49 crossings
- Jackson 44 crossings
- Morristown 44 crossings
- Lebanon 40 crossings