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Crossings / California / Petaluma

Petaluma
California.

Public crossings18at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates56%7 with no active device
Under a whistle ban9as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents1Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 18 public at-grade railroad crossings in Petaluma, CA, operated by 2 railroads. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit operates 10 of the crossings here, 56% of the total, ahead of Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company at 8.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (9) and commuter (9).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit1056%
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company844%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Ely Rd N on Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit is credited with 42 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 18 is 23. 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

10 of the 18 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (39%) 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

9 of the crossings (50%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E D 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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