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Crossings / Louisiana / New Orleans

New Orleans
Louisiana.

Public crossings119at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates23%62 with no active device
Under a whistle ban3as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents25Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 119 public at-grade railroad crossings in New Orleans, LA, operated by 4 railroads. 40 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad operates 56 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 48.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (114) and intercity (11).

RailroadCrossingsShare
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad5647%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company4840%
CSX Transportation108%
New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway Company Inc.54%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Peoples Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 27 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 119 is 4. 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

27 of the 119 crossings carry gates and 30 have flashing lights without gates. 62 (52%) 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

3 of the crossings (3%) 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 25 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 8 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • St Claude Ave — 7 reported incidents
  • Burdette St — 2 reported incidents
  • Poland Avenue — 2 reported incidents
  • Louisa Street — 1 reported incident
  • Julia 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.

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