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Kansas City
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Public crossings78at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates37%25 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents24Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 78 public at-grade railroad crossings in Kansas City, KS, operated by 4 railroads. 27 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 46 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Terminal Railway Company at 16.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (75) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4659%
Kansas City Terminal Railway Company1621%
BNSF Railway Company1519%
A & K RAILROAD MATERIALS, INC.11%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Douglas Ave on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 64 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 78 is 0. 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 70 mph.

Warning devices

29 of the 78 crossings carry gates and 24 have flashing lights without gates. 25 (32%) 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 24 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Kansas Avenue — 7 reported incidents
  • Kansas Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • 88th Street — 3 reported incidents
  • Kansas Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • S 51st Street — 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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