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Crossings / Arizona / Tempe

Tempe
Arizona.

Public crossings17at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates94%1 with no active device
Under a whistle ban10as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents7Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 17 public at-grade railroad crossings in Tempe, AZ, operated by one railroad. 3 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 17 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (17) and commuter (1).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at College Avenue on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 13 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 17 is 3. 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

16 of the 17 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. 1 (6%) 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

10 of the crossings (59%) 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 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • University Drive — 3 reported incidents
  • West 5th Street — 1 reported incident
  • 9th Street — 1 reported incident
  • SR 101 Frontage South — 1 reported incident
  • SR 101 Frontage North — 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.

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