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Crossings / Wisconsin / Watertown

Watertown
Wisconsin.

Public crossings32at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates50%9 with no active device
Under a whistle ban16as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents0Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 32 public at-grade railroad crossings in Watertown, WI, operated by 3 railroads. 5 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

SOO Line Railroad Company operates 15 of the crossings here, 47% of the total, ahead of Union Pacific Railroad Company at 11.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (32), intercity (13) and shared use transit (12).

RailroadCrossingsShare
SOO Line Railroad Company1547%
Union Pacific Railroad Company1134%
WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN RAILROAD, LLC619%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Hustisford Rd on SOO Line Railroad Company is credited with 21 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 32 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

16 of the 32 crossings carry gates and 7 have flashing lights without gates. 9 (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

16 of the crossings (50%) 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 no reported incident at any of these crossings since 2016. That is the reporting record, not a guarantee about any crossing.

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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