NY RR L § 78 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RRD - Railroad Article 3 - Construction, Operation and Management 78 - Coal Jimmies and Caboose Cars.

§  78.  Coal  jimmies  and  caboose  cars.  The  use of cars known and   designated as "coal jimmies" in any form and the use of  any  car  as  a   caboose  unless  it  shall have a suitable and safe platform at each end   thereof, and the usual railing for the protection of persons using  such   platform,  shall  be unlawful within the state, except upon any railroad   whose main line is less than fifteen miles in length and  whose  average   grade  exceeds  two  hundred feet to the mile. This section shall not be   construed to authorize the interchange of such "coal jimmies" with,  and   the  use thereof upon, railroads of more than fifteen miles in length or   whose average grade is less than two hundred feet to the mile.From and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four   it shall be unlawful for any corporation or individual to man, equip, or   to use within the state on any railroad a caboose car, or car  to  serve   the  purpose of a caboose car, which shall be less than twenty-four feet   in length exclusive of the  platform,  or  which  shall  have  a  center   constructive strength less than that of the fifty-ton freight cars built   according  to  master  car  builders'  standards.  Such caboose or other   equivalent car shall be constructed with steel  center  sills  with  two   four-wheeled trucks; with each platform not less than twenty-four inches   wide,  with  proper  guard  rails,  grab irons and steps, which shall be   equipped with a suitable rod, board or other guard designed  to  prevent   slipping  from the car step. Each such car shall have a door at each end   and shall be equipped with four separate sleeping berths not  less  than   six  feet  and  two  inches  in  length.  Each  such car shall contain a   properly furnished toilet room, sink,  icebox,  water  cooler,  clothing   lockers, fire extinguishers, and with either a cupola of sufficient size   to  accommodate  at least two men or bay windows. Each such car on every   freight train shall be equipped  with  electric  markers  of  sufficient   candle  power  to be visible for a distance of three thousand feet under   normal weather conditions. Flashing type  or  constant  burning  markers   shall  be deemed a sufficient compliance with the foregoing requirement.   The  glass  in  all  windows  and  doors  of  each  such  car  shall  be   shatterproof.  Whenever  any  caboose or other car used for like purpose   now in use by any such railroad company shall, after this act goes  into   effect,  be  brought  into  any  shop  for  general  repairs it shall be   unlawful to again put the same into use within this state, as a  caboose   or  other car used for like purpose unless it be equipped as provided in   this act. All cabooses  built  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred   sixty-five  must  be  of  steel  construction and equipped with electric   lights.This section shall not apply to cabooses or other equivalent cars used   in the switching service or on trains operated wholly within twenty-five   miles of yard limits.Any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall   be   a   misdemeanor,  punishable  by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars   nor more than five hundred  dollars  for  each  separate  offense.  This   penalty  is  in  addition  to that provided for in section eighty-one of   this chapter.