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Rail Crossing Atlasby Tan Solutions

U.S. railroad crossings, straight from the federal record.

An atlas of U.S. railroad crossings built from the Federal Railroad Administration’s crossing inventory: 203,235 active crossings, retrieved 4 October 2026. Public records by state and crossing guides are open to everyone.

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FRA highway-rail crossing inventory

Active grade crossings in the United States, one point of light each

Map of the United States drawn from 202,487 crossing locations in the federal inventory, with Alaska and Hawaii inset. The points trace the rail network: a dense mesh across the Midwest and East, bright hubs at Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas and Atlanta, and single lines across the West.

203,235active crossings

202,487 with a mapped location · FRA crossing inventory, retrieved 4 October 2026

Where it stands

Rail Crossing Atlas release steps

  1. Load the FRA crossing inventory (done)Refreshed 4 October 2026: 203,235 active crossings
  2. Public crossing records by state (done)Public since 1 October 2026
  3. Free accounts for the map, compare and record checks (done)Accounts live 3 October 2026
  4. Crossing guides (done)Guides index published 4 October 2026

Now: Live at railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org. Public records and guides are free to read; the interactive map, compare and record checks need a free account.

What’s open to everyone

Crossing records for every state, a record search and the crossing guides need no account. The interactive map, compare and record checks need a free account. The atlas shows what the federal records say; it does not assess crossing safety.

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Chicago, crossing by crossing

Zoom in on Chicago, where lines from every direction meet, and the network turns into single crossings: 2,463 of them in this window, about 150 km across, from Chicago’s northern suburbs to northwest Indiana. Each point sits where its FRA record places it.

Find a crossing in the atlas
Detail map of the Chicago area and northwest Indiana: 2,463 crossing points from the federal inventory, strung along rail lines that converge on the city, with the Lake Michigan shore to the east.
2,463 crossings in a window centred on 41.8° N, 87.8° W. FRA crossing inventory, retrieved 4 October 2026.

The live atlas, on a phone

Three public pages as they appear today. No account needed for any of them.

  1. The Rail Crossing Atlas home page on a phone: a search box for crossing IDs, roads, cities and railroads, and a map of the states.

    Search or pick a state

    Search by crossing ID, road, city or railroad, or start from the map of states.

  2. The Texas page of Rail Crossing Atlas on a phone: 14,045 crossing records, 13,992 with usable map locations, and record coverage counts.

    Open a state’s public records

    Each state page lists its crossing records and shows how many have usable locations, road counts and train counts.

  3. The About the data page of Rail Crossing Atlas on a phone: the federal crossing inventory and incident reports, each with its retrieval date.

    Check the source and its limits

    Every source is linked with the date it was retrieved, and the limits of the records are spelled out.

Looking up a railroad crossing

The Federal Railroad Administration keeps a record for every highway-rail crossing in the United States, each under its U.S. DOT crossing ID. Rail Crossing Atlas turns that inventory into pages you can read: search by crossing ID, road, city or railroad, open a state to see its crossings, or follow a guide on finding a crossing and reading crossing project documents.

Tan Solutions builds and runs the atlas. The state pages, the record search and the guides are on its own site: open a U.S. railroad crossing map on Rail Crossing Atlas.

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