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Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #1

A New York City Ordinance prohibits the shooting of rabbits from the rear of a Third Avenue street car: if the car is in motion. (archaic)

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #2

Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire. After much discussion, a 1912 amendment exempted dining cars on steam trains. (archaic)

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #3

It is a Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing: each train shall come to a full stop and neither train shall proceed until the other has gone. (archaic) In one of those "true facts" books there was an explanation for this law. It seems that one of the state senators did not want a law passed. To keep this particular law from passing, he attached the train law to it. He hoped that his fellow senators would discover the train law attached, see how ridiculous it was, and not pass the laws. Nobody saw the the train law attached and passed both laws. This may not be the real reason, but it sounds good. And it might explain some of the laws we have to live with.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #4

Gary, Indiana Persons are prohibited from attending a movie house or other theater and from riding a public streetcar within four hours of eating garlic.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #5

The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action." Smoking is not allowed in the subways.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #6

Alabama (archaic) Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #7

Washington (archaic) In Seattle, women who sit on men's laps on trains without placing a pillow between them face an automatic six-month jail term. A dog must be carried near the cowcatcher to scare livestock from the tracks. Only the Columbia and Walla Walla roads ever followed this state law.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #8

West Virginia It is illegal to snooze on a train. When a railroad passes within 1 mile of a community of 100 or more people in it, they must build a station and stop there regularly to pick up and drop off passengers.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #9

Wisconsin It is illegal to kiss on a train.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #10

Indiana It is illegal to attack a train.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #11

South Dakota It is illegal to place firecrackers on railroad track; fine doubles if they are lit.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #12

Rhode Island It is illegal to operate a passenger car between a locomotive and a load of dirt. It is considered a misdemeanor offense to throw pickle juice at a trolley.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #13

Minnesota The state of Minnesota enacted a law to define all railroad cars as buildings subject to the same rules and restrictions listed in state building codes. Amendments soon followed.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #14

Mississippi It is illegal to place soap on railroad tracks.

Ridiculous Railroad Prohibition #15

South Carolina Railroad companies may be held liable for scaring horses.

A railroad my not remove itself from a town of more than five hundred people.