Sioux City
Iowa.
The federal crossing inventory lists 57 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sioux City, IA, operated by 3 railroads. 12 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
BNSF Railway Company operates 31 of the crossings here, 54% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 23.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (57).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| BNSF Railway Company | 31 | 54% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 23 | 40% |
| Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company | 3 | 5% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Leech Avenue on BNSF Railway Company is credited with 10 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 57 is 1. 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
33 of the 57 crossings carry gates and 8 have flashing lights without gates. 16 (28%) 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
7 of the crossings (12%) 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 11 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 2 deaths and 3 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Boulevard Of Champions — 2 reported incidents
- Grant St — 1 reported incident
- Singing Hill Boulevard — 1 reported incident
- Dace Street — 1 reported incident
- Murray 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
- Council Bluffs 56 crossings
- Muscatine 39 crossings
- Grinnell 37 crossings
- Albia 36 crossings