Sparks
Nevada.
The federal crossing inventory lists 16 public at-grade railroad crossings in Sparks, NV, operated by one railroad. 3 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 94% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (16) and intercity (3).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Clark Station Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 17 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 16 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
10 of the 16 crossings carry gates and 1 have flashing lights without gates. 5 (31%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Waltham Way — 2 reported incidents
- Galletti Way — 1 reported incident
- Franklin Way — 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 Nevada cities on the inventory
- Reno 27 crossings
- Henderson 15 crossings
- North Las Vegas 14 crossings
- Schurz 12 crossings
- Ely 11 crossings
- Lovelock 11 crossings
- Paradise 11 crossings
- Winnemucca 11 crossings