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Every person operating a railroad within the City shall cause to be erected and maintained a safety gate at each side of the railroad at the intersection of the same with any public street, which gate shall be closed at the approach of each train or locomotive and shall be opened as soon as the same has passed.
(Sp. Ord. 64. Passed 3-2-1891.)
(a) No person shall erect or maintain any device or sign in the form of railway-crossing signboards on or near any of the public streets or highways of the City or permit such a device or sign to remain on or near the public streets or highways of the City, unless such sign or device is erected under a permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, which shall approve the location, construction and design of such sign or device.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) hereof shall not apply to crossing signboards erected or maintained by any railroad or railway company.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)
(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.)
No person shall sound a locomotive whistle, except for the purpose of giving the usual signals to train hands, as provided for and regulated by the rules of the railroad company operating the railroad. Such signals shall be blown and given for periods as short as possible.
(Sp. Ord. 64. Passed 3-2-1891.)
No locomotive engineer or other railroad employee engaged in any strike, or with a view to inciting others to a strike, or in furtherance of any combination or preconcerted arrangement with any other person to bring about a strike, shall abandon the locomotive engine in his or her charge, when such engine is attached either to a passenger or freight train, at any place other than the scheduled or otherwise appointed destination of such train, or refuse or neglect to continue to discharge his or her duty or to proceed with such train to the place of destination.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)
No person, in aid or in furtherance of the objects of any strike upon any railroad, shall interfere with, molest or obstruct any locomotive engineer or other railroad employee engaged in the discharge and performance of his or her duty as such.
(Ord. 4394. Passed 9-10-86.)
No person shall go upon or be upon any engine, tender or car of any railroad operated within the City, contrary to the rules and regulations of the corporation or company operating the railroad. No person who is not a train hand shall get into, on or upon any engine, tender or car of any railroad while the engine, tender or car is in motion.
(Gen. Ord. 51. Passed 12-12-1890.)
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