Crossings / Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania.
The federal crossing inventory lists 37 public at-grade railroad crossings in Pittsburgh, PA, operated by 4 railroads. 9 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Allegheny Valley Railroad Company operates 29 of the crossings here, 78% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 4.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (36), intercity (2) and shared use transit (1).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Valley Railroad Company | 29 | 78% |
| CSX Transportation | 4 | 11% |
| Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad Company, The | 3 | 8% |
| Norfolk Southern Railway Company | 1 | 3% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Haysglen Rd on CSX Transportation is credited with 12 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 37 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 40 mph.
Warning devices
7 of the 37 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 22 (59%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- South 4th St — 2 reported incidents
- Kutz Road — 1 reported incident
- 18th 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.
Other Pennsylvania cities on the inventory
- Philadelphia 101 crossings
- York 65 crossings
- Hanover 43 crossings
- Wilkes Barre 37 crossings
- Greenville 33 crossings
- Erie 31 crossings
- Upper Darby 30 crossings
- Lewistown 27 crossings