Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart B - Carriers of Passengers or Property › Chapter 33 - RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 33.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Blind car
-A railroad car attached behind
						the caboose of a freight train or at the rear end of a passenger train upon
						which a member of the crew cannot ride in order to properly protect the rear of
						the train in the event of an emergency.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Technical Utility
						Services of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
Cabin cars
-Cabooses provided for the use
						of railroad employees, excluding protection cars.
Carrier
-Any railroad, railway company or
						corporation subject to Commission jurisdiction, which operates in this
						Commonwealth.
Chemical closet
-A type of closet, the
						contents of which are brought into contact with chemicals.
Closet compartment
-An enclosure in a
						toilet room surrounding an individual water closet. To constitute an enclosure,
						there must be a swinging door equipped with an internal latch.
Department
-The Department of
						Transportation of the Commonwealth.
Height of a freight car
-The distance
						between the top of the rail and the top of the running board.
Locomotive
-A unit propelled by any form
						of energy or a combination of such units operated from a single control used in
						train or yard service. Does not include steam locomotives used for special
						excursions only.
Main track
-A designated track upon which
						trains are operated by timetable, train order, or both, or the use of which is
						governed by block signals.
Overhead clearance
-The vertical distance
						from the top of the highest rail to any structure or obstruction there
						above.
Protection cars
-Closed rider or space
						cars commonly provided for the use of train crews involved in the
						transportation of molten metals or other hot material by industrial common
						carrier railroads.
Refrigerators
-Techanical cooling
						devices, including ice boxes and ice chests, provided with adequate ice and
						draining systems.
Shower bath
-A facility used for washing
						the body under a spray of water.
Side clearance
-The shortest distance
						from the center line of a track to a structure or obstruction at the side of
						such track.
Side of a freight car
-The part or
						appurtenance of a car at the maximum distance measured at right angles from the
						center line of such car.
Street railway
-Every railroad and
						railway, or extension, and all the facilities thereof, by whatever power
						operated, for public use in the conveyance of passengers or property, located
						mainly or in part upon, above, below, through, or along any highway in any
						city, borough, or town, and not constituting or used as part of a trunk line
						railroad system.
Wash basin
or
bowl
-A
						basin or bowl used for the purpose of obtaining personal cleanliness.
Water closet
-A sanitary facility for
						defecation, equipped with a hopper or trap and a device for flushing the bowl
						with water.
Width of a freight car
-Twice the
						distance from the center line of car to the side of the car.
The provisions of this §
													33.1 amended under the Public
						  Utility Code,
						  66 Pa.C.S. §
														§
														501,
						  1501 and Chapter
						  27.