For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CROSSING LIGHTS. Electric lights of not less than 300 watts which shall be kept lighted daily during the same hours of each day and night that the city street lights are lighted.
ELECTRIC BULL’S EYE SIGNAL LIGHT. An illuminated railroad signal light containing not less than three lights of not less than 25 watts each or their equivalent to be kept lighted daily for 24 hours.
FLASHER LIGHTS.
(1) A “wig-wag” or electric automatic system of warning traffic of the approach of trains by the flashing of signal lights in a manner as to give the proper warning of the approach of railroad cars, locomotives or trains and so contrived, constructed, and automatically operated as to cause the lights to flash as a warning upon the approach of any engine, car or train of cars and to continue to flash or “wig-wag” until the engine, car, or train of cars shall be passed.
(2) These automatic signals shall be placed on each side of the railroad track and shall flash a danger signal in sufficient time to warn persons and shall remain flashing until the railroad train has passed the intersecting street.
FLOOD LIGHTS.
(1) An electric FLOOD LIGHT of not less than 400 watts, as set out in the schedules, to be kept lighted during the same hours of each day and night that the city street lights are lighted. As an alternative to the installation and maintenance of an electric FLOOD LIGHT, as herein required, there may be installed and erected a mercury vapor light at the option of the railroad company.
(2) When a mercury vapor light is erected, maintained, and operated, it shall be of not less than 400 watts capacity.
RAILROAD. A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than street cars, operated upon stationary rails.
RAILROAD SIGN OR SIGNAL. Any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
RAILROAD TRAIN. A steam engine, electric, or other motor, with or without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except street cars.
TRAINMAN. A member of the train crew who is required to take a position on the railroad crossing and, by means of red flag or signal by day and by light at night shall warn persons of the approach and crossing of the train.
WATCHPERSON. A railroad employee who is stationed at a railroad crossing and who shall have the duty of warning persons, by means of visible signals or by safety gates where gates are required, of the approach and crossing of a train.
(Prior Code, § 77.01)