Know before you're stuck at the tracks.
Drive normally. Crossbuck warns you when a railroad crossing ahead may be blocked, and shows which crossings are usually blocked, and when.
No account needed.
Example · Houston
Cullen Boulevard crossing
Most often blocked 12–2 PM
295 blockage reports in the past year
By the numbers
Every crossing in America, before you get there.
- railroad crossings mapped
- 202,168
- railroad crossings mapped
- states covered
- 50 + DC
- states covered
- blockage reports analyzed
- 160,636
- blockage reports analyzed
- crossings with blockage history
- 21,398
- crossings with blockage history
Federal Railroad Administration data, Dec 2019 – Nov 2026. Rows repeated in FRA's feed are counted once. Updated Nov 1, 2026.
Crossbuck drivers
Updated Nov 1, 2026
- Drivers
- 1
- Blockages flagged
- 1
- Heads-ups sent
- 0
- Took the way around
- 0
- Minutes saved
- 0
How we count
These numbers only count real activity, so they start at zero on launch day. No estimates dressed up as counts, no rounding up.
- Drivers:
- People who used Crossbuck at a railroad crossing in the last 30 days.
- Blockages flagged:
- Blockages our drivers' phones detected since launch, each counted once however many drivers waited.
- Heads-ups sent:
- Warnings delivered to drivers heading toward a flagged crossing.
- Took the way around:
- Drivers who got a heads-up, then never reached the crossing and kept driving elsewhere, as judged on their phone. Anything uncertain isn't counted.
- Minutes saved:
- For each driver who took the way around: how much longer the crossing stayed blocked after they would have arrived, minus the detour. Counted conservatively.
The problem
Most blocked crossings aren't a passing train. They're a parked one.
- 6 in 10
- reported blockages lasted more than 30 minutes
- 88%
- involved a train that wasn't moving
- Nearly1 in 5
- reports said emergency responders couldn't get across
- 32%
- came from crossings on school bus routes
These are only the reports. For every one filed, an estimated 50+ drivers waited and said nothing.* We never reported one either.
* Estimate: each crossing's average daily traffic (FRA inventory) × the shortest possible length of each reported blockage, divided by the number of reports; median across 43,000 blockages reported Sep 2024 – Aug 2026. Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Public Blocked Crossing Incident Reporter.
Where it happens
Blocked crossings cluster in a few places.
Each dot is a crossing reported blocked five or more times since Dec 2019. Bigger dots, more reports. Houston alone had 27,000+ reports, more than the next four metro areas combined.
Most-reported areas
- Houston, TX27,316 reports
- Chicago, IL12,428 reports
- Columbus, OH4,953 reports
- Dallas–Fort Worth, TX3,807 reports
- Detroit, MI3,702 reports
- Cincinnati, OH3,341 reports
- Wichita, KS2,914 reports
- Norfolk–Virginia Beach, VA2,897 reports
How it works
How Crossbuck helps
Know the usual suspects
See which crossings near you get blocked, and at what times of day, from federal reports going back to Dec 2019.
Hear about it before you get there
When drivers using Crossbuck are stopped at a crossing, drivers heading that way get a spoken heads-up.
Take the way around
Open a route in Google Maps or Apple Maps to the nearest bridge or underpass.
Privacy
Private by design
Your GPS trail stays on your phone. Crossbuck only shares that a crossing looks blocked, not where you've been.
No account needed. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to keep your history when you change phones.
The name
Why “Crossbuck”?
The crossbuck is the white X sign at every public railroad crossing in America. We named the app after it because that's where it helps: at the crossing, before you're stuck at it.
Drive normally. We'll watch the crossings.