Sioux Falls
South Dakota.

Who runs the track

BNSF Railway Company operates 53 of the crossings here, 59% of the total, ahead of ELLIS AND EASTERN at 36.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (90).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
BNSF Railway Company	53	59%
ELLIS AND EASTERN	36	40%
D & I Railroad Company	1	1%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Madison Street on ELLIS AND EASTERN is credited with 4 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 90 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

7 of the 90 crossings carry gates and 34 have flashing lights without gates. 49 (54%) 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 15 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• 8th Street E — 2 reported incidents
• 49th Street — 2 reported incidents
• Cliff Avenue S — 1 reported incident
• 7th Avenue S — 1 reported incident
• 14th 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.