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National City
California.
The federal crossing inventory lists 15 public at-grade railroad crossings in National City, CA, operated by 3 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 12 of the crossings here, 80% of the total, ahead of San Diego Trolley Incorporated at 2.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (15) and transit (2).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 12 | 80% |
| San Diego Trolley Incorporated | 2 | 13% |
| San Diego & Imperial Valley | 1 | 7% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at 8 Th St on San Diego Trolley Incorporated is credited with 209 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 15 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 55 mph.
Warning devices
11 of the 15 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (27%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- 19th St — 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 California cities on the inventory
- Los Angeles 164 crossings
- Fresno 136 crossings
- Stockton 133 crossings
- San Diego 103 crossings
- Oakland 91 crossings
- Vernon 90 crossings
- Sacramento 70 crossings
- Anaheim 69 crossings