Crossings / Alabama
Alabama
crossings.
Cities8110+ crossings each
Public crossings1,846at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates33%926 with no active device
Reported incidents550Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 1,846 public at-grade crossings across the 81 Alabama cities with at least ten of them. Birmingham has the most at 139.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company operates the most of them at 615, ahead of CSX Transportation at 499.
50% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 33% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Alabama city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Jefferson | 139 | 38% | 0 | 68 |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | 88 | 34% | 0 | 8 |
| Mobile | Mobile | 82 | 33% | 3 | 33 |
| Tuscaloosa | Tuscaloosa | 68 | 44% | 0 | 37 |
| Talladega | Talladega | 56 | 41% | 0 | 33 |
| Selma | Dallas | 55 | 22% | 0 | 13 |
| Dothan | Houston | 51 | 22% | 0 | 12 |
| Huntsville | Madison | 46 | 15% | 0 | 7 |
| Bessemer | Jefferson | 44 | 43% | 0 | 47 |
| Sylacauga | Talladega | 42 | 19% | 0 | 8 |
| Atmore | Escambia | 41 | 51% | 0 | 10 |
| Decatur | Morgan | 36 | 39% | 1 | 18 |
| Gadsden | Etowah | 36 | 3% | 0 | 6 |
| Calera | Shelby | 32 | 22% | 0 | 20 |
| Athens | Limestone | 31 | 45% | 0 | 17 |
| Phenix City | Russell | 31 | 23% | 0 | 5 |
| Demopolis | Marengo | 30 | 3% | 0 | 1 |
| Troy | Pike | 30 | 37% | 0 | 2 |
| Attalla | Etowah | 29 | 38% | 0 | 1 |
| Anniston | Calhoun | 27 | 67% | 0 | 15 |
| Jasper | Walker | 27 | 44% | 0 | 7 |
| Frisco City | Monroe | 22 | 9% | 0 | 3 |
| Albertville | Marshall | 20 | 30% | 0 | 5 |
| Enterprise | Coffee | 20 | 5% | 0 | 1 |
| Florence | Lauderdale | 20 | 5% | 0 | 0 |
| Cherokee | Colbert | 19 | 68% | 0 | 1 |
| Fort Payne | De Kalb | 19 | 95% | 0 | 2 |
| Opelika | Lee | 19 | 58% | 0 | 7 |
| Childersburg | Talladega | 18 | 22% | 0 | 3 |
| Cordova | Walker | 18 | 28% | 0 | 3 |
| Maplesville | Chilton | 18 | 17% | 0 | 6 |
| Oxford | Calhoun | 18 | 28% | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds | Jefferson | 17 | 53% | 0 | 4 |
| Ozark | Dale | 17 | 47% | 0 | 1 |
| Orrville | Dallas | 16 | 13% | 0 | 0 |
| Prattville | Autauga | 16 | 13% | 0 | 1 |
| Red Level | Covington | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Scottsboro | Jackson | 16 | 31% | 0 | 9 |
| Andalusia | Covington | 15 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Auburn | Lee | 15 | 80% | 0 | 14 |
| Flomaton | Escambia | 15 | 53% | 0 | 3 |
| Alabaster | Shelby | 14 | 64% | 0 | 8 |
| Alexander City | Tallapoosa | 14 | 50% | 0 | 3 |
| Clanton | Chilton | 14 | 64% | 0 | 8 |
| Cullman | Cullman | 14 | 71% | 3 | 4 |
| Eufaula | Barbour | 14 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Irondale | Jefferson | 14 | 29% | 0 | 2 |
| Nauvoo | Walker | 14 | 29% | 0 | 0 |
| Saraland | Mobile | 14 | 50% | 0 | 1 |
| Trussville | Jefferson | 14 | 57% | 0 | 0 |
| Bay Minette | Baldwin | 13 | 69% | 0 | 6 |
| Headland | Henry | 13 | 8% | 0 | 2 |
| Glencoe | Etowah | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Haleyville | Winston | 12 | 33% | 0 | 1 |
| Mount Vernon | Mobile | 12 | 17% | 0 | 2 |
| Pell City | St Clair | 12 | 83% | 0 | 1 |
| Pine Hill | Wilcox | 12 | 25% | 0 | 2 |
| Russellville | Franklin | 12 | 75% | 0 | 1 |
| Tarrant | Jefferson | 12 | 8% | 0 | 8 |
| Webb | Houston | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Aliceville | Pickens | 11 | 0% | 0 | 3 |
| Bear Creek | Marion | 11 | 18% | 0 | 2 |
| Billingsley | Autauga | 11 | 0% | 0 | 7 |
| Boaz | Marshall | 11 | 36% | 0 | 2 |
| Buhl | Tuscaloosa | 11 | 0% | 0 | 3 |
| Carbon Hill | Walker | 11 | 45% | 0 | 1 |
| Hartselle | Morgan | 11 | 73% | 0 | 8 |
| McKenzie | Butler | 11 | 18% | 0 | 0 |
| Monroeville | Monroe | 11 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Muscle Shoals | Colbert | 11 | 27% | 0 | 0 |
| Satsuma | Mobile | 11 | 82% | 0 | 5 |
| Smiths | Lee | 11 | 27% | 0 | 5 |
| Stevenson | Jackson | 11 | 36% | 0 | 8 |
| Ashford | Houston | 10 | 60% | 0 | 3 |
| Boligee | Greene | 10 | 20% | 0 | 1 |
| Linden | Marengo | 10 | 30% | 0 | 2 |
| Lipscomb | Jefferson | 10 | 40% | 0 | 11 |
| Newville | Henry | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Notasulga | Macon | 10 | 20% | 0 | 5 |
| Thomaston | Marengo | 10 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Winfield | Marion | 10 | 40% | 0 | 1 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.