Rail Crossing Atlas
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Look up US railroad crossings: equipment, daily trains, road traffic, county and state summaries.
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- Streamable HTTP · MCP 2025-11-25
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Scored across 5 tools
Each tool targets a clearly distinct question: county totals, state totals, nearby crossings, a single crossing by FRA ID, or a point-based train activity score. The two spatial tools differ clearly in output type, and the two summary tools differ by geographic scope.
The set mixes noun-phrase names like county_summary, state_summary, and train_activity with verb_noun names like find_crossings_near and get_crossing. The names remain readable, but there is no single predictable naming convention.
Five tools is well-scoped for a focused rail-crossing reference atlas. Each tool covers a distinct lookup mode without obvious padding.
The surface covers summaries, point lookup, nearby search, and train activity, but it lacks an obvious way to list or browse crossings within a county or state, or to search by road/city. These gaps could force workarounds for common atlas-style exploration.
Available Tools
5 toolscounty_summaryCounty totalsARead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Get the totals for one US county. Returns the number of public railroad crossings, how many have gates, lights or signs, the most trains a day and the other facts shown on the county page, with a link to that page.
Inputs: state (required), county (required).
find_crossings_nearFind crossings near a pointARead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Find US railroad crossings near a point. Give a latitude and longitude, and a distance of up to 2 miles (1 mile if left out). Returns up to the 25 closest crossings, each with its crossing ID, road, city, equipment, daily trains, distance in miles and a link to its page.
Inputs: latitude (required), longitude (required), radius_miles.
get_crossingLook up one crossingARead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Look up one US railroad crossing by its 7-character FRA crossing ID. Returns its road, place, equipment, daily trains, road traffic, a link to its page, a link to this version of the record and a link to the FRA record.
Inputs: crossing_id (required).
state_summaryState totalsARead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Get the totals for one US state: the number of public railroad crossings and how many are equipped with gates, with flashing lights only, with signs only, or with other or unreported equipment. Returns a link to the state page.
Inputs: state (required).
train_activityTrain activity number for a pointARead-onlyIdempotentInspect
Get the train activity number for one US point: a number from 0 to 100 for the trains that pass within 1 mile, built from the train counts railroads report to the FRA. Give a latitude and longitude, or the point as at, like 41.587,-93.625. The point is rounded to 3 decimals. Returns the number, its band, the inputs behind it, the nearest crossing, the data date and a link to its page.
Inputs: at, latitude, longitude.
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