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Crossings / Colorado / Monte Vista

Monte Vista
Colorado.

Public crossings31at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates13%22 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents4Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 31 public at-grade railroad crossings in Monte Vista, CO, operated by 2 railroads. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

COLORADO PACIFIC RIO GRANDE RAILROAD LLC operates 25 of the crossings here, 81% of the total, ahead of San Luis Central Railroad Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (25) and tourist/other (4).

RailroadCrossingsShare
COLORADO PACIFIC RIO GRANDE RAILROAD LLC2581%
San Luis Central Railroad Company619%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Sherman Ave on COLORADO PACIFIC RIO GRANDE RAILROAD LLC is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 31 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 10 mph.

Warning devices

4 of the 31 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 22 (71%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Airport Rd — 1 reported incident
  • Jefferson St — 1 reported incident
  • CR 5N — 1 reported incident
  • CR 6N — 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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