Tuscaloosa
Alabama.

Who runs the track

Alabama Southern Railroad operates 45 of the crossings here, 66% of the total, ahead of Norfolk Southern Railway Company at 23.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (68) and intercity (22).

Railroad	Crossings	Share
Alabama Southern Railroad	45	66%
Norfolk Southern Railway Company	23	34%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Tannehill Parkway on Norfolk Southern Railway Company is credited with 23 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 68 is 4. 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

30 of the 68 crossings carry gates and 6 have flashing lights without gates. 32 (47%) 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 37 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 6 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

• Harper Rd — 4 reported incidents
• 17th Ave — 3 reported incidents
• Hargrove Rd — 3 reported incidents
• 32nd St/City Dump Rd — 3 reported incidents
• 43rd Avenue — 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.