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Crossings / Iowa / Mason City

Mason City
Iowa.

Public crossings76at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates33%41 with no active device
Under a whistle ban3as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 76 public at-grade railroad crossings in Mason City, IA, operated by 3 railroads. 9 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 36 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad at 24.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (76) and transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company3647%
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad2432%
Iowa Traction Railway Company1621%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 120th Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 8 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 76 is 4. 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

25 of the 76 crossings carry gates and 10 have flashing lights without gates. 41 (54%) 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

3 of the crossings (4%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 19th St Sw — 2 reported incidents
  • 150th Street — 1 reported incident
  • 6th Street Southwest — 1 reported incident
  • S Taft Ave — 1 reported incident
  • 19th St Sw — 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.

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