Sec. 487. Railroad company obstructing passage on
street or anyone standing a vehicle on railroad track
—how punished.
It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, or any receiver,
or trustee operating a railroad to obstruct for a longer period
than five minutes, the free passage on any street or road, by
standing cars or trains across the same, except a passenger train
while receiving or discharging passengers, but a passway shall
be kept open; nor shall it be lawful to stand any wagon or other
vehicle on the track of any railroad which will hinder or endanger
a moving train; provided, that when a train has been uncoupled,
so as to make a passway, the time necessarily required,
not exceeding three minutes, to pump up the air after the train
has been recoupled shall not be included in considering the time
said cars or trains were standing across said street or road. Any
such railroad company, receiver, or trustee, or driver of any such
wagon or vehicle, violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
