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Crossings / Pennsylvania / Wilkes Barre

Wilkes Barre
Pennsylvania.

Public crossings37at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates38%21 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents5Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 37 public at-grade railroad crossings in Wilkes Barre, PA, operated by 2 railroads. 4 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

LUZERNE & SUSQUEHANNA RAILWAY operates 36 of the crossings here, 97% of the total, ahead of RJ Corman Railroad Company/Childersburg Line, LLC at 1.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (9).

RailroadCrossingsShare
LUZERNE & SUSQUEHANNA RAILWAY3697%
RJ Corman Railroad Company/Childersburg Line, LLC13%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at Butler St on LUZERNE & SUSQUEHANNA RAILWAY is credited with 2 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 37 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 15 mph.

Warning devices

14 of the 37 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 21 (57%) 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 5 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Conyngham Ave — 1 reported incident
  • North Main Street — 1 reported incident
  • Conyngham Ave — 1 reported incident
  • Dana — 1 reported incident
  • Hazel — 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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