(a) No locomotive or railroad car shall be stopped upon any street where the railroad crosses the same, except for the purpose of detaching a portion of that train or coupling the same together. Nothing in this section shall authorize the use of a railroad crossing for the purpose of drilling a train.
(Sp. Ord. 64. Passed 3-2-1891.)
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a) hereof, no railroad shall obstruct or block up the passage of any crossings of a street or highway, or obstruct such crossings, with its rolling stock. No engineer, or member of the train crew, or other agent of any such railroad, shall obstruct or block up such crossings.
(c) No railroad shall continue to obstruct or block up the passage of any private crossing, wherever any private road or crossing-place may be necessary to enable the occupant or occupants of land or farms to pass over the railroad with livestock, wagons and implements of husbandry, after the railroad has received at least fifteen minutes verbal notice to remove its rolling stock or other obstruction from any such private road or crossing-place.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)