Crossings / Iowa / Marshalltown
Marshalltown
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 23 public at-grade railroad crossings in Marshalltown, IA, operated by 2 railroads. 9 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 96% of the total, ahead of Iowa River Railroad Inc at 1.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (23).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 22 | 96% |
| Iowa River Railroad Inc | 1 | 4% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at IA 330 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 40 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 23 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
10 of the 23 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 10 (43%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- South 6th Street — 1 reported incident
- South 12th 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.
Other Iowa cities on the inventory
- Waterloo 92 crossings
- Cedar Rapids 81 crossings
- Des Moines 79 crossings
- Mason City 76 crossings
- Sioux City 57 crossings
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings