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La Porte
Texas.

Public crossings17at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates65%4 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in La Porte, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 88% of the total, ahead of Port Terminal Railroad Association at 2.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (17).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company1588%
Port Terminal Railroad Association212%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Miller Cut Off Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 5 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 is 2. 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 10 mph.

Warning devices

11 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (24%) 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 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • East Barbours Cut Boulevard — 2 reported incidents
  • Bay Area Boulevard — 2 reported incidents
  • Tidal Road/Itc — 2 reported incidents
  • Old Texas 146 — 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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