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Crossings / California / Riverside

Riverside
California.

Public crossings42at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates83%5 with no active device
Under a whistle ban15as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents31Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 42 public at-grade railroad crossings in Riverside, CA, operated by 3 railroads. 24 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 18 of the crossings here, 43% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 14.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (40), intercity (22), commuter (20) and shared use transit (1).

RailroadCrossingsShare
BNSF Railway Company1843%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1433%
Southern California Regional Rail Authority1024%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Evans St on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 60 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 42 is 15. 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 70 mph.

Warning devices

35 of the 42 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (12%) 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

15 of the crossings (36%) 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 31 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 8 deaths and 14 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Spruce — 4 reported incidents
  • 3rd St — 4 reported incidents
  • Bellegrave Avenue — 3 reported incidents
  • Chicago Ave — 3 reported incidents
  • Gibson St — 3 reported incidents

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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