Spartanburg
South Carolina.

Who runs the track

Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates 22 of the crossings here, 69% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 10.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (32) and intercity (6).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	22	69%
CSX Transportation	10	31%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Forest Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 25 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

18 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 14 (44%) 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

2 of the crossings (6%) 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 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Dogwood Club Road — 3 reported incidents
• Arch St — 3 reported incidents
• North Thompson Street — 1 reported incident
• Sims Chappell Road — 1 reported incident
• Utilities Road — 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.