Rules and Regulations for the Government of Employes of the Operating Dept1903 - Railroads - 164 pages |
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Page 69 - Columbia, shall confine the same in cars. boats, or vessels of any description for a period longer than twenty-eight consecutive hours without unloading the same in a humane manner, into properly equipped pens for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of at least five consecutive hours...
Page 19 - When a train stops or is delayed, under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the flagman must go back immediately with stop signals a sufficient distance to insure full protection...
Page 4 - To enter or remain in the service is an assurance of willingness to obey the rules. Obedience to the rules is essential to the safety of passengers and employes, and to the protection of property.
Page 6 - An engine, or more than one engine coupled, with or without cars, displaying Markers. REGULAR TRAIN. — A train represented on the Time-table. It may consist of Sections. SECTION. — One of two or more trains running on the same schedule displaying signals or for which signals are displayed. EXTRA TRAIN. — A train not represented on the Time-table.
Page 7 - STATION. —A place designated on the time table by name at which a train may stop for traffic, or to enter or leave the main track, or from which fixed signals are operated.
Page 15 - A blue flag by day and a blue light by Blue signal night, displayed at one or both ends of an engine, car or train, indicates that workmen are under or about it. When thus protected it must not be coupled to or moved.
Page 10 - Employes whose duties may require them to give signals must provide themselves with the proper appliances, keep them in good order and ready for immediate use.
Page 21 - 19" train order has been transmitted, operators must (unless otherwise directed) repeat it at once from the manifold copy, in the succession in which the several offices have been addressed. Each operator receiving the order should observe whether the others repeat correctly. When the order has been repeated correctly by an operator, the response "complete" and the time, with the initials of the , will be given by the train dispatcher.
Page 21 - A train order to be sent to two or more offices must be transmitted simultaneously to as many of them as practicable. The several addresses must be in the order of superiority of trains, each office taking its proper address. When not sent simultaneously to all, the order must be sent first to the superior train.
Page 24 - A fixed signal must be used at each als- train order office, which shall indicate "stop" when there is an operator on duty, except when changed to ' ' proceed ' ' to allow a train to pass after getting train orders, or for which there are no orders. A train must not pass the signal while "stop" is indicated. The signal must be returned to "stop" as soon as a train has passed. It must be fastened at "proceed" only when no operator is on duty.