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New Braunfels
Texas.

Public crossings46at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates89%4 with no active device
Under a whistle ban25as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents10Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 46 public at-grade railroad crossings in New Braunfels, TX, operated by 2 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 45 of the crossings here, 98% of the total, ahead of Western Railroad Company at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (45) and intercity (41).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4598%
Western Railroad Company12%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at FM1102 on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 31 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 46 is 29. 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

41 of the 46 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (9%) 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

25 of the crossings (54%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Orion Drive — 3 reported incidents
  • FM1102 — 1 reported incident
  • North Solms Road — 1 reported incident
  • Comal Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Elm 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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