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Crossings / Florida / Tampa

Tampa
Florida.

Public crossings179at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates75%21 with no active device
Under a whistle ban1as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents27Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 179 public at-grade railroad crossings in Tampa, FL, operated by 2 railroads. 26 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

CSX Transportation operates 178 of the crossings here, 99% of the total, ahead of FLORIDA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (178), intercity (26) and shared use transit (3).

RailroadCrossingsShare
CSX Transportation17899%
FLORIDA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.11%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at N Falkenburg Rd on CSX Transportation is credited with 9 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 179 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 79 mph.

Warning devices

134 of the 179 crossings carry gates and 24 have flashing lights without gates. 21 (12%) 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

1 of the crossings (1%) 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 27 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 15 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Tampa East Blvd — 7 reported incidents
  • N 12th St — 3 reported incidents
  • E Washington St — 2 reported incidents
  • North Blvd — 2 reported incidents
  • N Nebraska Ave — 2 reported incidents

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.

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