Crossings / Louisiana / Opelousas
Opelousas
Louisiana.
The federal crossing inventory lists 39 public at-grade railroad crossings in Opelousas, LA, operated by 2 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Acadiana Railway Company operates 20 of the crossings here, 51% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 19.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (39).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Acadiana Railway Company | 20 | 51% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 19 | 49% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Grolee Street/Camp Hampton Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 39 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
19 of the 39 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 17 (44%) 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 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- North Raymond Street — 2 reported incidents
- LA 3043/Grandnigo Road — 2 reported incidents
- Jennings Road — 1 reported incident
- Wallior Street — 1 reported incident
- North Court 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.
Other Louisiana cities on the inventory
- New Orleans 119 crossings
- Baton Rouge 104 crossings
- Monroe 87 crossings
- Shreveport 77 crossings
- Lake Charles 64 crossings
- New Iberia 55 crossings
- Bossier City 51 crossings
- Bastrop 37 crossings