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Crossings / Nebraska / Omaha

Omaha
Nebraska.

Public crossings56at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates25%30 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 56 public at-grade railroad crossings in Omaha, NE, operated by 3 railroads. 11 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 49 of the crossings here, 88% of the total, ahead of BNSF Railway Company at 4.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (56) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4988%
BNSF Railway Company47%
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company35%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Main Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 18 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 56 is 2. 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

14 of the 56 crossings carry gates and 12 have flashing lights without gates. 30 (54%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Nicholas Street — 1 reported incident
  • South 20th Street — 1 reported incident
  • Ames Avenue — 1 reported incident
  • Fort Street — 1 reported incident
  • F 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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