Lake Charles
Louisiana.

Who runs the track

PORT RAIL INC operates 49 of the crossings here, 77% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 15.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (41) and intercity (5).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
PORT RAIL INC	49	77%
Union Pacific Railroad Company	15	23%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at LA 397/East Ward Line Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 13 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 64 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 75 mph.

Warning devices

10 of the 64 crossings carry gates and 10 have flashing lights without gates. 44 (69%) 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 5 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• LA 397/East Ward Line Road — 2 reported incidents
• LA 14 — 1 reported incident
• First Ave — 1 reported incident
• Jackson Street — 1 reported incident
• Ryan 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.