Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 192.29 (2026)
Train bells and crossing signs at street and highway crossings
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192.29(3)(a)(a) No railroad train or locomotive shall run over any public traveled grade crossing within any city or village, except where gates are operated, or a flagman is stationed, unless the engine bell shall be rung continuously within 330 feet of the crossing and until the crossing is reached.
192.29(3)(b)(b) Flagmen or gates shall be placed and maintained, or such mechanical safety appliances shall be installed upon such public traveled grade crossings in villages and cities as the city or village authorities and the railroad company may by agreement decide; such agreement may include the apportionment of the cost of installation of such mechanical devices.
192.29(4)(4) Highways; bell. No railroad train or locomotive shall run over any public traveled grade highway crossing outside of the limits of municipalities unless the engine bell shall be rung continuously from 1,320 feet before the crossing until the crossing is reached. But the office may order that the ringing of the bell as required by this subsection shall be omitted at any crossing.
192.29(5)(a)(a) Wherever its track crosses a public highway or street, every railroad corporation shall maintain on each side of the track a highway-rail-grade crossing sign, commonly known as a crossbuck sign, that conforms with the manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted by the department under s. 84.02 (4) (e).
192.29(5)(b)(b) No later than July 1, 2007, at every railroad crossing at which a railroad corporation is required to maintain a sign described in par. (a) and that is not controlled by a gate, automatic signal, or official stop sign, the railroad corporation shall install and maintain, below the sign described in par. (a), a yield sign that conforms with the manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted by the department under s. 84.02 (4) (e).
192.29(6)(6) Contact information at private crossings. A railroad company shall make a notice containing a telephone number at which a person may contact the company available to private landowners at each private traveled grade crossing at the request of the private landowner. The notice shall be large enough to be visible from the crossing.
192.29 HistoryHistory: 1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (8) (b), (9) (e), 1656 (43); 1977 c. 116; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 1997 a. 254; 2005 a. 95, 179; 2013 a. 219.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1934–2004 · leading case: Anderson v. Wisconsin Cent. Transp. Co., 327 F. Supp. 2d 969 (E.D. Wis. 2004).
Anderson v. Wisconsin Cent. Transp. Co., 327 F. Supp. 2d 969 (E.D. Wis. 2004). “Wis. Stat. § 192.29 (4); Wis. J1‘ — Civil § 1402 (1989).”
McCaffrey v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co., 267 N.W. 326 (Wis. 1936). “(3) of sec. 192.29, Stats., and which required them to be installed and in operation within sixty days.”
Hammer v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co., 255 N.W. 124 (Wis. 1934). “It is contended by defendant that this law has no application, and that such accidents are wholly governed by sec. 192.29, Stats., which provides, in the event of the negligent omission of the railroad to comply with certain safety requirements, that slight want of ordinary care…”
Glendenning Motorways, Inc. v. Green Bay & W. R.R., 39 N.W.2d 694 (Wis. 1949). “(1) that speed shall not exceed fifteen miles an hour while approaching and within twenty rods of any public-traveled grade crossing in any city or village. Sub. (2) provides that when gates or flagmen are maintained, trains or locomotives shall not exceed thirty miles an hour,…”
De Wildt v. Thomson, 6 N.W.2d 173 (Wis. 1942). “It was coasting somewhat downgrade at about thirty to thirty-five miles per hour, but the speed limit under sec. 192.29, Stats., was fifteen miles per hour at such places.”
United States v. Great N. Ry. Co., 103 F. Supp. 889 (W.D. Wis. 1952). “The grade crossing in question at Winter Street is protected by two standard cross buck railroad warning signs conforming to the requirements of Section 192.29(5), Wis.Stats. These signs are located on both sides of the crossing and are visible on Winter Street for more than 100…”
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United States v. Great N. Ry. Co., 103 F. Supp. 889 (W.D. Wis. 1952). “The grade crossing in question at Winter Street is protected by two standard cross buck railroad warning signs conforming to the requirements of Section 192.29(5), Wis.Stats. These signs are located on both sides of the crossing and are visible on Winter Street for more than 100…”
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