Crossings / Nebraska / Lincoln
Lincoln
Nebraska.
The federal crossing inventory lists 60 public at-grade railroad crossings in Lincoln, NE, operated by 3 railroads. 19 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 55 of the crossings here, 92% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 4.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (59), intercity (17) and shared use transit (1).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 55 | 92% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 4 | 7% |
| Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Railway Company | 1 | 2% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at S 1st St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 58 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 60 is 0. 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
33 of the 60 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 21 (35%) 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
12 of the crossings (20%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.
Incident history
Form 57 records 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- 33rd St — 3 reported incidents
- Adams Street — 1 reported incident
- D 5th St — 1 reported incident
- Park Blvd — 1 reported incident
- Calvert & 10th — 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 Nebraska cities on the inventory
- Grand Island 58 crossings
- Hastings 58 crossings
- Omaha 56 crossings
- Fremont 40 crossings
- David City 35 crossings
- Nebraska City 32 crossings
- Sidney 30 crossings
- Central City 25 crossings