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Who runs the track

Kanawha River Railroad operates 16 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (16).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at McJunkin Road on Kanawha River Railroad is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 16 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 25 mph.

Warning devices

5 of the 16 crossings carry gates and 5 have flashing lights without gates. 6 (38%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• McJunkin Road — 4 reported incidents
• 19th Street — 1 reported incident
• Lock Street — 1 reported incident
• Owens 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.