Rail Crossing Atlas MCP Server

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Rail Crossing Atlas is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Look up US railroad crossings: equipment, daily trains, road traffic, county and state summaries.

Uptime history 10 days of history · worst day 98%

10 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

781 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 23 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

23 Oct a tool appeared train_activity

Rail Crossing Atlas missed 2 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add crossings --transport http https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.crossings]
url = "https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossings": {
      "url": "https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "crossings": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

county

county_summary

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.

crossing

get_crossing

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.

crossings

find_crossings_near

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.

state

state_summary

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.

train

train_activity

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.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://railcrossingatlas.tansolutions.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	708 ms	14 min ago

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Rail Crossing Atlas — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Rail Crossing Atlas do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: county_summary, find_crossings_near, get_crossing, state_summary, train_activity. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Rail Crossing Atlas working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 781 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Rail Crossing Atlas?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Rail Crossing Atlas need an API key?

No. Rail Crossing Atlas completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Rail Crossing Atlas?

It answers our handshake in 781 ms on average, which is faster than 10% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.