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Crossings / Iowa / Plymouth

Plymouth
Iowa.

Public crossings18at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates17%11 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents3Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 18 public at-grade railroad crossings in Plymouth, IA, operated by 3 railroads. 1 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad operates 11 of the crossings here, 61% of the total, ahead of Iowa Northern Railway Company at 6.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (18).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad1161%
Iowa Northern Railway Company633%
Union Pacific Railroad Company16%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at 330th Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 7 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 18 is 6. 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

3 of the 18 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 11 (61%) 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 3 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Spruce Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Main St — 1 reported incident
  • Ulmus Ave — 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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