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Crossings / Indiana / New Castle

New Castle
Indiana.

Public crossings29at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates41%8 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents10Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 29 public at-grade railroad crossings in New Castle, IN, operated by 2 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

NEW CASTLE SOUTHERN RAILROAD operates 17 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 12.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (29).

RailroadCrossingsShare
NEW CASTLE SOUTHERN RAILROAD1759%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company1241%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Road 200 North on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 24 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 29 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 60 mph.

Warning devices

12 of the 29 crossings carry gates and 9 have flashing lights without gates. 8 (28%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Broad Street — 4 reported incidents
  • Twenty-First Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Road 250 East — 2 reported incidents
  • Seventeenth Street — 1 reported incident
  • Twenty-Fifth 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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