Crossings / Mississippi / Laurel
Laurel
Mississippi.
The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in Laurel, MS, operated by one railroad. 3 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 17 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (17) and intercity (10).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Central Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 11 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 is 10. 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
10 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (41%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Ellisville Boulevard — 6 reported incidents
- Harrison Boulevard — 1 reported incident
- Queensburg Avenue — 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 Mississippi cities on the inventory
- Columbus 68 crossings
- Gulfport 66 crossings
- Moss Point 53 crossings
- Hattiesburg 48 crossings
- Vicksburg 43 crossings
- Meridian 40 crossings
- Jackson 36 crossings
- Brookhaven 35 crossings