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Crossings / California / Santa Ana

Santa Ana
California.

Public crossings35at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates89%2 with no active device
Under a whistle ban6as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents15Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 35 public at-grade railroad crossings in Santa Ana, CA, operated by 3 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 63% of the total, ahead of Southern California Regional Rail Authority at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (35), intercity (11) and commuter (11).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company2263%
Southern California Regional Rail Authority1131%
BNSF Railway Company26%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E 17th St on Southern California Regional Rail Authority is credited with 70 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 35 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

31 of the 35 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 2 (6%) 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

6 of the crossings (17%) 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 15 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 6 deaths and 7 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • E 17th St — 4 reported incidents
  • Grand Av — 3 reported incidents
  • S Lyon St — 2 reported incidents
  • E Santa Clara Av — 1 reported incident
  • E 17th 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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