Traffic lights on an interstate

[kphoger]

Interstate 8 and Interstate 10 have stop signs at the California border.

What, you mean at the interior border checkpoint?  Not sure that should count....

[Alps]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

Absolutely not, though add "Interstate" and it gets tougher.

[NE2]

There are probably still a few. http://www.rxrsignals.net/Phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1685 has some listed (not necessarily all freeways).

[roadman65]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

These are freeways, but not interstates, but FL 112 near Miami International Airport (as well as switched carrigeways) has a shallow angle crossing of an active line.

NY 17 near Middletown, NY had one at grade RR Crossing on it with a traffic signal and not the usual crossbuck and flashing reds.

[vdeane]

I don't remember seeing one and Google doesn't have it either.  Is it gone?  They did just reconstruct that portion of NY 17.

[Bickendan]

WA 432 has an active rail crossing.

[sr641]

i70 in breezwood, pa

[Alps]

i70 in breezwood, pa

Has already been mentioned. You're not even reading the threads. Your email address is a bunch of random letters. Who are you?

[Brian556]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

I've probably said this before somewhere, but there used to be one on I-35 at Austin, TX. They didn't want to pay for a grade seperation because abandonment of the railroad was planned. It no longer exists.

[hbelkins]

i70 in breezwood, pa

Has already been mentioned. You're not even reading the threads. Your email address is a bunch of random letters. Who are you?

I woke up in a Soho doorway, the policeman knew my name.

[kphoger]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

Absolutely not, though add "Interstate" and it gets tougher.

The following comes darned close.  In fact, I could imagine the line of stopped cars backing up far enough to conflict with Interstate traffic.

I-680 around the north side of Omaha (NE) has its eastern terminus at a cloverleaf; exit right for I-29 South, do the jughandle for I-29 North, go straight for CR-988 to Crescent, IA.  The thing is, there's only 1/10 mile between the interchange and the stop line at a railroad crossing on CR-988.  In fact, there are railroad crossing warnings on Interstate pavement.

http://g.co/maps/qg538

[sp_redelectric]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

Not an Interstate but definitely a limited-access highway:  Oregon 22, north of Aumsville, has an at-grade railroad crossing with crossing signals on the mainline lanes plus the westbound on-ramp (the eastbound off-ramp begins after the railroad crossing).

[thenetwork]

Wooster, OH also has a limited-access freeway (US-30/US-250/SR-3) in which just south of Downtown, there is a railroad crossing (and thank goodness it is Exempted from full- stop laws for school buses and Hazardous cargo vehicles).

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Wooster, OH also has a limited-access freeway (US-30/US-250/SR-3) in which just south of Downtown, there is a railroad crossing (and thank goodness it is Exempted from full- stop laws for school buses and Hazardous cargo vehicles).

[mgk920]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

Absolutely not, though add "Interstate" and it gets tougher.

Of the numerous ones that were once scattered throughout Wisconsin, there are two that are still active - both are on US 151, one is just south of Waupun and the other is in Beaver Dam.  Both are required stops for buses and hazmats, pull-off lanes are provided.  WisDOT does have long-term plans to eliminate them, though.

Mike

[Anthony_JK]

There is an at-grade rail crossing of US 90/Future I-49 South in Iberia Parish just east of the newly finished LA 85 interchange. It'a a spur of the Louisiana & Delta RR (connected to the mainline UP/BNSF) that serves a sugar cane processing mill. AFAIK, there are plans to either build a grade seperation or extend the existing L&DRR spur at Baldwin to connect to the plant, then remove the crossing.


Anthony

[Scott5114]

The James River Freeway (US 60) in Springfield MO featured an active RR crossing until fairly recently. I got caught there once. The backup was spectacular and extended all the way up the nearby ramps, back onto US 65.

[vtk]

Wooster, OH also has a limited-access freeway (US-30/US-250/SR-3) in which just south of Downtown, there is a railroad crossing (and thank goodness it is Exempted from full- stop laws for school buses and Hazardous cargo vehicles).

Is that still there?

[PurdueBill]

I believe so, with an overhead signal instead of two ground-mounted ones each way.

[drrosenrosen]

Wooster, OH also has a limited-access freeway (US-30/US-250/SR-3) in which just south of Downtown, there is a railroad crossing (and thank goodness it is Exempted from full- stop laws for school buses and Hazardous cargo vehicles).

Is that still there?

Yes, on US 30/US 250, between the OH 3 (S Columbus Rd) and OH 302 exits. 
See:
http://g.co/maps/fbfr9

[mightyace]

Is this one on US 22/322 in Lewistown, PA still active or at least still there?

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.6023,-77.562228&spn=70.988343,186.152344&t=w&z=3&layer=c&panoid=bm28IYLcTYDcEX0vGAGfPA&cbll=40.6023,-77.562228&cbp=13,158.70930925123733,,0,-3.5523383298111355

[kphoger]

The James River Freeway (US 60) in Springfield MO featured an active RR crossing until fairly recently. I got caught there once. The backup was spectacular and extended all the way up the nearby ramps, back onto US 65.

Wow, I didn't know trains even used that one.  From the northwest, you come around a curve and then over the crest of a hill.  I'd hate to see a sea (or sea a see) of taillights all of a sudden!

[Duke87]

Atlantic City-Brigantine connector and NJ Tranist:


It's one thing to have a rarely used freight line cross a freeway at grade. This crossing is used by a passenger train 24 times a day.

[roadman65]

Atlantic City-Brigantine connector and NJ Tranist:


It's one thing to have a rarely used freight line cross a freeway at grade. This crossing is used by a passenger train 24 times a day.

The Brigantine Connector would have to  have the ACE build another bridge over the Back Thorofare  or build a higher span for the NJ Transit Line over the waterway as well to eliminate the grade crossing.  To lift the Connector over the tracks would currently be almost as high as the ACE, and going under would be below sea level and complicated.  The railroad would have to build a new station and re-grade for at least a mile west of the crossing to allow for a taller bridge across the Thorofare.

Basically this was the only solution under the conditions.  The RR was built decades (if not centuries) as the Penn Reading Seashore Line and in the 60s when the ACE was built, no one at these times thought that a future roadway along the waterway would be built as a freeway. 

[roadman65]

I don't remember seeing one and Google doesn't have it either.  Is it gone?  They did just reconstruct that portion of NY 17.

I found where it was on the satelite view of the area.  Its obviously been gone for a while as I last saw it back in the 70's.