Crossings / Indiana / La Porte
La Porte
Indiana.
The federal crossing inventory lists 27 public at-grade railroad crossings in La Porte, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 10 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Chicago Southshore & South Bend Railroad operates 19 of the crossings here, 70% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 8.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (27) and intercity (8).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Southshore & South Bend Railroad | 19 | 70% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 8 | 30% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Madison Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 61 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 27 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 79 mph.
Warning devices
11 of the 27 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (48%) 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 (30%) 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 18 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 6 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Orchard Avenue — 5 reported incidents
- Boston Street — 3 reported incidents
- Pulaski Street — 3 reported incidents
- Madison Street — 2 reported incidents
- Factory 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 Indiana cities on the inventory
- Indianapolis 167 crossings
- Terre Haute 107 crossings
- Evansville 98 crossings
- Gary 89 crossings
- Anderson 81 crossings
- Kokomo 77 crossings
- Michigan City 72 crossings
- Muncie 63 crossings