How many railroad crossings are in Lake Charles, Louisiana?
The FRA inventory of lists 64 public railroad crossings in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
- Public crossings
- 64
- Public crossings with identified warning devices
- 64
- Public crossings reported with gates
- 16%
- Most trains a day reported
- 33
- Reported incidents at public crossings since 2016
- 7
- Gate share compared with the state
- 28 percentage points lower
Where are these public crossings?
Browse the listThe map shows the available locations on this page. Area shading may include crossings outside this group.
Gates are reported at 16% of these crossings.
- Gates1016%
- Flashing lights without reported gates1016%
- Signs without reported gates or lights4469%
- Other or not reported00%
Each crossing appears once, grouped by its reported warning devices. Missing fields don't mean the warning devices are absent.
Incident counts cover January 2016 through 31 July 2026. They describe reported events, not a rating of crossings.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
How many trains pass each crossing?
Public crossings are ordered by reported trains a day, from most to lowest.
- Gerstner Memorial BlvdLake Charles4,566 vehicles a day2023 road count
- Lake StreetLake Charles3,764 vehicles a day2021 road count
- Westwood StLake Charles200 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Alvin/Ernest StLake Charles2,656 vehicles a day2021 road count
- Elms StLake Charles200 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Ryan StreetLake Charles16,589 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Lake StreetLake Charles88 vehicles a day2025 road count
- Nelson RoadLake Charles293 vehicles a day2025 road count
- Elliot RoadLake Charles23 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Western/Winnie StLake Charles300 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Kennedy StLake Charles200 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Creole StLake Charles200 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Ethel StLake Charles200 vehicles a day2010 road count
- Stanton StLake Charles300 vehicles a day2010 road count
Trains blocking a crossing in Lake Charles? How to report it.Blocked crossing rules in Louisiana
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Sources and dates