All railroad companies having a track or tracks within the City, together with their employees, shall be governed by the following rules and regulations:
(a) No locomotive, car or train of cars shall cross or enter upon any street within the City limits at a greater speed than thirty-five (35) miles an hour, nor at a less rate of speed than three (3) miles per hour;
(b) No train of cars shall cross any of the streets within the City without sufficient motive power attached, to start and stop the train without delay, nor shall any train of cars or locomotive be stopped across the streets, except as provided in Section 631.06. When any train or cars shall, by unavoidable accident, be stopped across any street, the train shall be at once cut, so as to clear the crossing;
(c) No engine shall run across any street with open cylinder cocks, nor shall cylinder cocks be opened while any engine is on a street;
(d) After one (1) locomotive, train of cars or section of a train, has crossed any street, no other locomotive or cars shall be permitted to cross until all detained persons have had full time to cross, as may be determined by the police in the neighborhood;
(e) Safety gates shall not be lowered nor protective devices placed in operation, nor flags, targets or lights exhibited upon crossings until the approaching train has arrived within two thousand five hundred (2,500) feet of the crossing; provided that such gates shall be lowered or protective devices put in operation before the engine or train reaches a point one thousand (1,000) feet from the nearest side line of the street or crossing;
(f) All locomotives operated within the limits of the City shall be equipped as necessary with screens or other devices sufficient to prevent the escape of sparks from the engine.
(Ord. No. 89178. Passed 2-17-30)