Crossings / California / Union City
Union City
California.
The federal crossing inventory lists 25 public at-grade railroad crossings in Union City, CA, operated by one railroad. 6 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 25 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (25) and intercity (8).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Whipple Rd on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 25 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
15 of the 25 crossings carry gates and 3 have flashing lights without gates. 7 (28%) 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 10 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 3 deaths and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Whipple Rd — 2 reported incidents
- E Street — 2 reported incidents
- Atlantic Street — 2 reported incidents
- H Street — 1 reported incident
- Smith Street — 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.
Other California cities on the inventory
- Los Angeles 164 crossings
- Fresno 136 crossings
- Stockton 133 crossings
- San Diego 103 crossings
- Oakland 91 crossings
- Vernon 90 crossings
- Sacramento 70 crossings
- Anaheim 69 crossings