Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 29 - Utility facilities on department of transportation railroad property › Section Trans 29.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "AREA" means the American railway engineering association, manual for railway
			 engineering, chapter 1, part 5, revised in 1993.
Note: The Manual for Railway Engineering, Chapter 1, Part 5, is
				on file at the offices of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Secretary of
				State, and the Department of Transportation, Bureau of Railroads and Harbors.
				Copies of this publication can be obtained by writing to the American Railway
				Engineering and Maintenance Association, 50 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
				20001.
(2) "Cable" means
			 either a stranded conductor or a combination of conductors insulated from each
			 other.
(3) "Carrier" means a pipe,
			 pipeline or other container carrying or otherwise conveying a liquid, gas or
			 other material, not including electric current or impulses.
(4) "Casing" means a protective outer
			 covering, separate from the carrier, designed to withstand external forces
			 equal to or greater than the carrier.
(5) "Circuit" means a conductor or system of
			 conductors through which electric current or light can flow or
			 travel.
(6) "Conduit" means
			 channels or tubes for enclosing and protecting communication or electric power
			 lines.
(7) "Department" means the
			 Wisconsin department of transportation or any successor to that department
			 charged by law with administering Wisconsin's railroad programs.
(8) "Department railroad property" means
			 railroad property or rail or land bank property owned, controlled or possessed
			 by the department.
(9) "Duct" means
			 a tube or pipe designed or used for enclosing and protecting wire or cable
			 underground.
(10) "Installation"
			 means the initial placement of a utility facility upon, over, under or within
			 department railroad property.
(11)
			 "Modification" includes changing or adjusting the physical location or capacity
			 of an existing utility facility located on department railroad property by such
			 actions as placing additional overhead wires; replacing existing overhead wires
			 with higher voltage wires; changing the existing placement of poles, pedestals
			 or other above-ground appurtenances; or replacing underground carrier pipes or
			 casings.
(12) "Pipeline" means a
			 utility facility installed to carry or convey a fluid, gas or other material
			 underground and includes the casing and the carrier.
(13) "Plowing" means a mechanical technique
			 for direct burial of a carrier, duct or cable in a furrow or groove cut into
			 the ground by a single operation, without any intervening activity between the
			 cutting of the furrow or groove and the burial of the carrier, duct or
			 cable.
(14) "Railroad facility"
			 means track, ties, drainage structure, bridge or related items used for
			 existing or for anticipated railroad operations.
(15) "Rail or land bank property" means
			 railroad property or facilities owned, controlled or possessed by the
			 department for future rail or other transportation purposes and on which there
			 is no current railroad operator.
(16) "Railroad operator" means a railroad
			 carrier that provides rail service over a department railroad property or that
			 is under an agreement with a transit commission to provide rail service over
			 the department's railroad property.
(17) "Railroad property" means land, usually
			 a strip, used in the operation, maintenance or construction of a
			 railroad.
(18) "Routine
			 maintenance" includes work concerning the normal upkeep and servicing of a
			 utility facility and includes those utility facility changes not defined as an
			 installation or modification.
(19)
			 "Separate utility installation" means a distinct utility activity or
			 service.
(20) "Track zone" means:
(a) The track structure, including, but not
			 limited to, the rails, ties or fastenings; and
(b) The substructure upon which the track is
			 located, including, but not limited to, the ballast, subballast or embankment,
			 extending out from the track centerline a minimum of 12 feet on either side. In
			 the following circumstances, however, the track zone extends beyond the 12 foot
			 minimum on either side of the track centerline:
1. In embankments, the outer boundary of the
			 track zone is the toe of the embankment slope, which is the intersection of an
			 embankment slope with the ground surface; and
2. In cuts, the outer boundary of the track
			 zone is the intersection of the plane of the roadbed with the cut
			 slope.