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Crossings / Iowa / Nevada

Nevada
Iowa.

Public crossings24at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates75%6 with no active device
Under a whistle ban10as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents2Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 24 public at-grade railroad crossings in Nevada, IA, operated by one railroad. 7 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 24 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (24).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 6th Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 50 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 24 is 9. 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

18 of the 24 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (25%) 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

10 of the crossings (42%) 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 2 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 8th Street — 1 reported incident
  • 6th 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.

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