United States Safety Appliance Standards and Power Brake RequirementsU.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety, 1977 - Railroads - 96 pages |
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12 inches air brake BLOCK OR END bolts or rivets brake cylinder brake pipe brake shaft brake valve brake wheel buffer block caboose car and passing Clearance of outer CLOSED KNUCKLE closed with coupler common carrier coupler horn Dimensions end of car end of handhold end platform end sill face of knuckle five-eighths hand brake HORIZONTAL END HANDHOLDS HORN AGAINST BUFFER house cars inches from end inches from side inside face iron or steel knuckle when closed ladder treads length of tread less than 1/2-inch less than 24 locomotive Manner of application Minimum clear length Minimum clearance Minimum diameter Number one-half operated while car outer end parallel with end PLATE pounds power brakes running board Safety Appliance safety railing Section securely fastened side of car Sill steps specified for Box switching step tank bands tank cars top of rail train brakes UNCOUPLING ATTACHMENT Uncoupling levers vertical plane parallel wrought iron
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Page 2 - Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.
Page 5 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 1 - ... that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with power or train brakes that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose.
Page 16 - Ends of handles shall extend not less than 4 inches below bottom of end sill or shall be so constructed as to give a minimum clearance of 2 inches around handle. Minimum drop of handles shall be 12 inches; maximum, 15 inches over all. (See plate B.) (vi) Handles of uncoupling levers of the "rocking
Page 71 - That whenever, as provided in said act, any train is operated with power or train brakes, not less than fifty per centum of the cars in such train shall have their brakes used and operated by the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train; and all power-braked cars in such train which are associated together with said fifty per centum shall have their brakes so used and operated...
Page 2 - SEC. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of any of the provisions of this act...
Page 3 - ... apply to all trains, locomotives, tenders, cars, and similar vehicles used on any railroad engaged in interstate commerce, and in the Territories and the District of Columbia, and to all other locomotives, tenders, cars, and similar vehicles used in connection therewith...
Page 71 - March 2, 1903, any train is operated with power or train brakes, not less than 85 percent of the cars of such train shall have their brakes used and operated by the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train, and all power-brake cars in every such train which are associated together with the 85 percent shall have their brakes so used and operated.
Page 2 - ... shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 6 - ... such repair point; and such movement or hauling of such car shall be at the sole risk of the carrier, and nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve such carrier from liability in any remedial action for the death or injury of any railroad employee...