Sylacauga
Alabama.

Who runs the track

Eastern Alabama Railway Company operates 33 of the crossings here, 79% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 9.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (42).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Eastern Alabama Railway Company	33	79%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	9	21%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at E Third Street on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 7 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 42 is 2. 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 50 mph.

Warning devices

8 of the 42 crossings carry gates and 4 have flashing lights without gates. 30 (71%) 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 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Gene E Stewart Blvd — 2 reported incidents
• N Elm Ave — 1 reported incident
• N Broadway Ave / 405 AL-21 — 1 reported incident
• Fayetteville Rd — 1 reported incident
• Fayetteville Rd — 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.