Crossings / Illinois / Woodstock
Woodstock
Illinois.
The federal crossing inventory lists 11 public at-grade railroad crossings in Woodstock, IL, operated by one railroad. 11 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 11 of the crossings here, 100% of the total.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (11) and commuter (11).
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Lily Pond Road on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 22 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 11 is 22. 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 70 mph.
Warning devices
11 of the 11 crossings carry gates and 0 have flashing lights without gates. Every crossing here has an active warning device. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.
Horns and quiet zones
1 of the crossings (9%) 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 4 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 1 injury. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- Lily Pond Road — 1 reported incident
- Benton Street — 1 reported incident
- Short Street — 1 reported incident
- Lamb Road — 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.