Crossings / Iowa / Sioux Center
Sioux Center
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 12 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sioux Center, IA, operated by one railroad. 5 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 12 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (12).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at 3rd St Nw on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 12 is 8. 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 49 mph.
Warning devices
7 of the 12 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 4 (33%) 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 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- County Road — 2 reported incidents
- 20th Street — 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 Iowa cities on the inventory
- Waterloo 92 crossings
- Cedar Rapids 81 crossings
- Des Moines 79 crossings
- Mason City 76 crossings
- Sioux City 57 crossings
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings