How many public crossings does Norfolk Southern Railway Company report in Tennessee?
The FRA inventory of lists 725 public railroad crossings in Tennessee with Norfolk Southern Railway Company as the reporting railroad.
- Public crossings
- 725
- Public crossings with identified warning devices
- 697
- Public crossings reported with gates
- 51%
- Most trains a day reported
- 75
- Reported incidents at public crossings since 2016
- 166
- Gate share compared with the state
- 16 percentage points higher
Where are these public crossings?
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Gates are reported at 51% of these crossings.
- Gates37151%
- Flashing lights without reported gates11416%
- Signs without reported gates or lights21229%
- Other or not reported284%
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.
- Depot StJonesboro857 vehicles a day2006 road count
- W Irish StGreeneville737 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Reaves LaneGreeneville686 vehicles a day2006 road count
- E Morris BlvdMorristown11,640 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Hamblen AveMorristown3,954 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Industrial AvenueMorristown1,717 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Old Andrew Johnson HighwayNew Market524 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Highway 11EStrawberry Plains14,764 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Vincil StreetLenoir City141 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Evans LaneLenoir City31 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Water StreetCharleston3,039 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Beale StMemphis2,172 vehicles a day2007 road count
- South Creek Rd EChattanooga2,200 vehicles a day2006 road count
- N Hawthorne StreetChattanooga637 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Orchard Knob AveChattanooga360 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Amnicola HighwayChattanooga40,296 vehicles a day2006 road count
- 14th AvenueChattanooga223 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Judd StChattanooga763 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Riverside LaneChattanooga288 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Riverside DriveChattanooga3,443 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Curtain Pole RoadChattanooga172 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Thirty-seventh StreetChattanooga1,536 vehicles a day2006 road count
- E 38th StreetChattanooga2,037 vehicles a day2006 road count
- E 43rd StreetChattanooga1,957 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Rossville BlvdChattanooga22,226 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Wilson RoadChattanooga4,243 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Central AvenueChattanooga1,898 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Riverfront ParkwayChattanooga668 vehicles a day2006 road count
- W 47th StreetChattanooga668 vehicles a day2006 road count
- W 45th StreetChattanooga1,800 vehicles a day2006 road count
- W 33rd StreetChattanooga648 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Alton Park BoulevardChattanooga7,130 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Williams StreetChattanooga544 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Broad StreetChattanooga23,659 vehicles a day2006 road count
- St Elmo AvenueChattanooga344 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Superspun AveueChattanooga1,269 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Peeples StreetChattanooga500 vehicles a day1988 road count
- Rossville BoulevardChattanooga630 vehicles a day2006 road count
- E 17th StreetChattanooga43 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Main StreetChattanooga9,121 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Manufacturers RoadChattanooga10 vehicles a day1988 road count
- Coors DriveChattanooga54 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Multi Family DrivChattanooga100 vehicles a day1988 road count
- Pineville RoadChattanooga2,377 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Broadway StreetDayton1,598 vehicles a day2006 road count
- CaliforniaDayton457 vehicles a day2006 road count
- Manufacturers RoadChattanoogaNo road count has been reported.
- McClelland StBluff City1,265 vehicles a day2011 road count
- Park AccessChattanoogaNo road count has been reported.
- Meridian StreetNiota263 vehicles a day2006 road count
Report a blocked crossing
Call the number on the blue sign at the crossing first. The sign names the railroad and gives the crossing number.
Norfolk Southern's line for crossing gates, signals and rough crossings: 800-453-2530. Norfolk Southern's 24-hour police line is 800-946-4744.
Contact details on Norfolk Southern's website
Have ready: the street or roadway name, the city and the six-digit DOT crossing number on the sign. Checked on on norfolksouthern.com.
Then tell the Federal Railroad Administration with its blocked crossing reporter. FRA uses the reports only to track where crossings are blocked and what that causes.
If someone needs help right away, call 911. How to report a blocked crossing
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Sources and dates