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Crossings / Wisconsin / Wausau

Wausau
Wisconsin.

Public crossings49at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates22%23 with no active device
Under a whistle ban47as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents6Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 49 public at-grade railroad crossings in Wausau, WI, operated by one railroad. 2 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

FOX VALLEY & LAKE SUPERIOR RAIL SYSTEM, LLC operates 49 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (49).

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Townline Rd on FOX VALLEY & LAKE SUPERIOR RAIL SYSTEM, LLC is credited with 6 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 49 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 40 mph.

Warning devices

11 of the 49 crossings carry gates and 15 have flashing lights without gates. 23 (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

47 of the crossings (96%) 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 6 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • 5th Ave — 2 reported incidents
  • Stewart Ave — 1 reported incident
  • 6th Ave — 1 reported incident
  • 8th Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Sherman St — 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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