(a)
The following crossings of public streets and thoroughfares with
tracks upon which railroad trains of the Kansas City Southern Railway
Company System operate are declared to be dangerous railroad crossings:
(c)
The following crossings of public streets and thoroughfares with
tracks upon which railroad trains of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railway Company System operate are declared to be dangerous railroad
crossings:
(d)
The following crossings of public streets and thoroughfares with
tracks upon which railroad trains of the Southern Pacific Lines System
operate are declared to be dangerous railroad crossings:
(1958 Code, sec. 31-17; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-30)
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, or permit to be operated,
a railroad train over any of the above-named dangerous railroad crossings
in the city without having installed and in operation at such railroad-street
crossings, train-approach signals to warn pedestrians and operators
of vehicles using such public streets and thoroughfares of any approaching
railroad train.
(b)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever there shall be in existence
at, or in proximity to, any of such dangerous crossings a vehicular
traffic-control signal, any person operating or permitting another
to operate a railroad train over such dangerous crossing shall be
in full compliance with the requirements of this section if it shall
bond the rails over which the train operates and provide the necessary
actuating apparatus so as to connect said vehicular traffic control
signal to said bonded rails for the purpose of providing signal protection
at said crossing upon approach of trains.
(1958 Code, sec. 31-18; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-31)
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 20.02.072, train-approach signals or flagmen are not required at, and section 20.02.072 shall not be applicable to, any railroad crossing during construction at such crossing under the grade-separation program of the city.
(1958 Code, sec. 31-18.1; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-32)
The train-approach signals provided for in section 20.02.072 shall be of the flashing-light signal type in which indication of the approach of the train is given by two (2) horizontal red lights flashing alternately at predetermined intervals. The flashing-light train-approach signals may be controlled manually or automatically through track circuits arranged so that the flashing-light signals will operate until the rear of the train reaches or clears the crossing, and so that the signals will operate upon the approach of trains from either direction on the track for which protection is provided. One train-approach signal shall be placed on each side of the track on standards so that the lamp shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than nine (9) feet above the surface of the street. The location of the standard shall be approved by the traffic engineer of the city.
(1958 Code, sec. 31-19; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-33)
At such dangerous railroad crossings, if automatic train-approach
signals are installed and maintained, a feature shall be included
in the track circuits that will permit the signals to be turned off
when a train, which has placed such signals in operation, has come
to a complete stop and remains stopped for thirty (30) seconds without
having covered the crossing for which the signal is intended, or with
a device by which the signal may be disconnected when the crew operating
such railroad train does not intend moving the train over the crossing.
When movement is again resumed in the direction of covering the crossing,
the signal shall be placed in operation immediately upon commencement
of such movement. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit a
railroad train to remain standing at or near, but not upon, any of
the above-named crossings with the train-approach signals in operation
for more than thirty (30) seconds.
(1958 Code, sec. 31-20; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-34)
Railroad crossing signs, commonly known as “cross bucks,”
shall be erected on the standard carrying the electric train-approach
signals where same are provided, and, at railroad crossings where
electric train-approach signals are not provided, a cross buck shall
be provided on each side of such crossing at its intersection with
the railroad track.
(1958 Code, sec. 31-22; 1978 Code,
sec. 22-35)
