Le Mars
Iowa.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 55% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 5.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (33).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Union Pacific Railroad Company	18	55%
BNSF Railway Company	5	15%
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company	5	15%
Burlington Junction Railway	5	15%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 200th St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 8 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 33 is 3. 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

12 of the 33 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 15 (45%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• 18th Street Southwest — 2 reported incidents
• 21st Street Southwest — 2 reported incidents
• 200th St — 1 reported incident
• 180th St — 1 reported incident
• 110th 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.