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Page 1 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 1 - railroad" as used in this Act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract. agreement, or lease ; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 1 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 2 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, its officers or agents subject to this Act, to require or permit any...
Page 9 - ... 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 4 - That each carrier subject to this act shall file its rules and instructions for the inspection of locomotive boilers with the chief inspector within three months after the approval of this act, and after hearing and approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission, such rules and instructions, with such modifications as the commission requires, shall become obligatory upon such carrier...
Page 52 - Each locomotive used in road service, which is regularly required to run backward for any portion of its trip, except to pick up a detached portion of its train, or in making terminal movements, shall have on its rear a headlight which shall meet the foregoing requirements.
Page 55 - Bent axle; cut journals that can not be made to run cool without turning; seamy journals in steel axles, or transverse seams in journals of iron axles, or unsafe on account of usage, accident, or derailment; collars broken or worn to one-fourth inch or less in thickness; fillet in back shoulder worn out.
Page 212 - ... of having a flange turned over at right angles to the body of the tube to the width required by the applicable material specifications.
Page 35 - That in the case of accident resulting from failure from any cause of a locomotive boiler or its appurtenances, resulting in serious injury or death to one or more persons, a statement forthwith must be made in writing of the fact of such accident, by the carrier owning or operating said locomotive, to the chief inspector.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Locomotive and Boiler Inspectors' Handbook Railwaymen's handbook series |
| Author | Adam J. O'Neil |
| Compiled by | Adam J. O'Neil |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Simmons-Boardman publishing Company, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 274 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |