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Crossings / Louisiana / Lafayette

Lafayette
Louisiana.

Public crossings37at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates81%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents10Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 37 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lafayette, LA, operated by 2 railroads. 6 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 28 of the crossings here, 76% of the total, ahead of LOUISIANA DELTA RAILROAD at 9.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (36) and intercity (27).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company2876%
LOUISIANA DELTA RAILROAD924%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 2nd St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 5 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 37 is 4. 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

30 of the 37 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (16%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E Verot School Rd — 3 reported incidents
  • Mudd Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • American Boulevard — 2 reported incidents
  • 2nd St — 1 reported incident
  • Johnston 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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