Crossings / Louisiana / Lake Providence
Lake Providence
Louisiana.
The federal crossing inventory lists 16 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lake Providence, LA, operated by 2 railroads. Each carries a single track.
Who runs the track
North Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad operates 14 of the crossings here, 88% of the total, ahead of Delta Southern Railroad Company at 2.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (16).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| North Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad | 14 | 88% |
| Delta Southern Railroad Company | 2 | 13% |
How much traffic is reported
No through-train movements are reported at any crossing here. That usually means industrial or yard track rather than a route with scheduled traffic, but a blank field is also how the inventory records "not counted".
The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 30 mph.
Warning devices
0 of the 16 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (63%) 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 no reported incident at any of these crossings since 2016. That is the reporting record, not a guarantee about any crossing.
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 Louisiana cities on the inventory
- New Orleans 119 crossings
- Baton Rouge 104 crossings
- Monroe 87 crossings
- Shreveport 77 crossings
- Lake Charles 64 crossings
- New Iberia 55 crossings
- Bossier City 51 crossings
- Opelousas 38 crossings