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Crossings / Washington / Renton

Renton
Washington.

Public crossings28at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates39%13 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents1Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 28 public at-grade railroad crossings in Renton, WA, operated by 2 railroads. Each carries a single track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 27 of the crossings here, 96% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (28) and intercity (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company2796%
Union Pacific Railroad Company14%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Gene Coulon Pk Rd on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 3 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 28 is 0. 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

11 of the 28 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 13 (46%) 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 1 reported incident at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • SW 29th 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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