Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1535 - CROSSINGS OF RAIL CARRIERS AND HIGHWAYS › Subpart B - DEFINITIONS › Section 1535.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Advance warning sign" means a fixed sign, located at a
				  distance from a grade crossing and intended to warn drivers of vehicles of the
				  presence of the crossing before the vehicle reaches the crossing.
"AREMA" means American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of
				  Way Association (2004 Edition).
"Automatic gates" means gates which are designed to move into
				  the obstructing position automatically upon the approach of a train or trains,
				  and to move into the clear position when the train or trains have cleared the
				  crossing and are generally used in conjunction with "flashing light signals" as
				  defined in this Section.
"City" means all incorporated cities, villages and
				  towns.
"Clearance signs" means the signs posted at a subway to
				  indicate the maximum height of vehicles that may safely pass beneath the grade
				  separation structure.
"Crossbuck sign" means a sign consisting essentially of two
				  boards or blades, crossing each other in the general form of the letter X, and
				  designed to be mounted upon a post or upon the mast of an automatic signal. The
				  word "RAILROAD" is inscribed upon the board or blade extending from the upper
				  left to the lower right portion of the sign as viewed by a person facing the
				  crossing, and the word "CROSSING" is inscribed upon the board or blade
				  extending from the lower left to the upper right portion of the sign.
"Crossing" means any place where a public street or highway
				  and a railroad cross either at grade or by separation of grades. It may also
				  apply to locations where a railroad running longitudinally in a street is
				  crossed by a roadway or sidewalk.
"Crossing proper" means that portion of the grade crossing
				  over the crosstie area.
"Crosstie" means a transverse beam that connects and supports
				  the rails of a railroad.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of
				  Transportation.
"Flashing light signal" means a signaling device consisting
				  essentially of two red lamps mounted horizontally about 2 feet 6 inches between
				  centers and which flash alternately to indicate the approach of a train. Such
				  signals usually are designed to operate automatically upon the approach of a
				  train but sometimes are so arranged as to start and cease operation by a manual
				  controlling device.
"Gates" means a barrier that employs arms so arranged as to
				  be moved into a position wholly or partly to obstruct a street. "Gates" provide
				  a definite obstruction to street traffic but are not designed positively to
				  stop moving vehicles.
"Grade crossing" means any crossing where the street or
				  highway and the railroad are at the same elevation.
"Hazard marker" means a fixed sign consisting of a vertical
				  rectangle, size 1 foot by 3 feet having alternating black and reflectorized
				  yellow or white stripes 3 inches in width sloping down at an angle of 45
				  degrees toward the side of the obstruction on which traffic is to pass, or
				  should conditions dictate other type of marker, one of those described in the
				  current edition of Illinois Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
"Highway" means the same as "street".
"Law" means the Illinois Commercial Transportation Law [625
				  ILCS 5/18c ].
"MUTCD" means the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
				  Devices (2003 Edition).
"Rail carrier" means the same as the definition in Section
				  18c-1104 of the Law[625 ILCS 5/18c-1104
				  ].
"Railroad" means the same as the definition in Section
				  18c-1104 of the Law .
"Railroad train" means any locomotive with or without cars
				  coupled to it, operating upon a railroad. This term, however, is not applied to
				  handcars, speeders, motor cars, hi-rail cars or self-propelled work equipment
				  operated for maintenance or other railroad purposes and not used for the
				  transportation of persons or property for hire.
"Reflector button" means a unit consisting essentially of a
				  glass lens and a reflecting mirror or a plastic lens so designed as to reflect
				  the rays of light from headlights of vehicles. The reflecting mirror may be a
				  separate mirror or consist of reflecting material deposited directly upon the
				  surface of the lens.
"Reflector type" or "reflectorized," when applied to any
				  sign, means that either the letters or some outstanding feature of the sign is
				  marked by reflector buttons, or by other suitable reflecting devices or
				  materials, in such manner as to be illuminated and made visible by headlights
				  of vehicles.
"Roadway" means that portion of a street or highway improved,
				  designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
"Shoulder" means that portion of a highway between the edge
				  of the pavement and the curb line where there is a sidewalk, or, where there is
				  no sidewalk, between the edge of the pavement and the outer edge of the surface
				  graded for possible vehicular use.
"Sidewalk" means that portion of a street, between the curb
				  lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines,
				  intended for the use of pedestrians.
"Street" means the entire width between property lines of
				  every way or place of whatever nature when any part is open to the use of the
				  public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular traffic.
"Subway" means a crossing where the street or highway passes
				  underneath the railroad.
"Temporary STOP Sign" means the installation of temporary
				  STOP signs whenever the Commission authorizes the installation of automatic
				  flashing light signals or automatic flashing light signals and gates at public
				  highway-rail grade crossings, pursuant to Section 18c-7401(3) of the
				  Law.
"Viaduct" means a crossing where the street or highway passes
				  above the railroad.