Inspection and Regulation of Train Dispatching Service: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ...on S. 1538...April 15-17, 19461946 - 162 páginas |
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amended American Railroads American Train Dispatchers April 15 Association of American authority bill BRAESE BURTON K carrier casualties cause centralized traffic control chairman Chicago class I railroads committee on operating current of traffic dispatcher's dispatching districts dispatching service duty enforcement engine flag protection following train freight train handled hazard ICC Report inferior trains instructions Interstate Commerce Commission investigation involved issued legislation line-up main track methods miles Missouri Pacific Missouri Pacific Railroad motor movement of trains number of trains operating officer operating rules opposing trains passenger train patcher Pennsylvania Railroad percent provide adequate railroad management railroad operation Railway Railway Labor Act rear-end collision recommendations record regulations responsibility road rule 99 safety of railroad Sainsbury's Senator JOHNSON side collision signal indication speed standard code statement superintendent supervision switch telegraph telephone territory testimony tion track motorcars train accidents train movements train sheets train-dispatching service TRIEM vice president violation yard limits
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Página 5 - 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...
Página 147 - employer" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall...
Página 113 - Upon failure of any division to agree upon an award because of a deadlock or inability to secure a majority vote of the division members, as provided in paragraph (n) of this section, then such division shall forthwith agree upon and select a neutral person, to be known as ' referee ', to sit with the division as a member thereof and make an award.
Página 29 - 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.
Página 150 - International Association of Machinists. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America. International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. Sheet Metal Workers
Página 147 - ... 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 ; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred.
Página 146 - A train must not leave a station in advance of its schedule leaving time. 93. Within yard limits the main track may be used, protecting against class trains. class and extra trains must move within yard limits, prepared to stop unless the main track is seen or known to be clear.
Página 147 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the...
Página 5 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission shall have authority to investigate all collisions, derailments, or other accidents resulting in serious injury...
Página 28 - We arc still more or less under the spell of the old idea that care is wholly a matter of the will. No truth of science, however, is better established than that fatigue is not simply a matter of muscles, but that it involves nerves and brain as well, and extends to all the faculties of the mind itself. It produces physiological changes which deaden the will and impair the sense of sight and of hearing. It Is as truly a physical cause of accident as are open switches and broken rails.