Surface Transportation Safety Measures: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session ... March 20, 21, 1957U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 343 páginas |
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accident occurred airbrake American Railroads American Trucking Associations angle cock applied ARPAIA bill brake application brake cylinder brake equipment brake pipe brake valve brake-pipe Bureau of Safety caboose car inspectors Chairman CLARKE Commission's committee common carriers conductor defective departing tests derailed diesel-electric unit driver employees enforcement engineer excessive piston travel exempt extra flagman Foreign Commerce freight train gage HEISS highway inches indicated inoperative brakes inspection Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission legislation locomotive main track maintenance March 28 miles per hour motor carriers Nehasane number of cars operation passenger penalty percent point of accident power brakes prescribed Princeville private carriers proposed rail Railway rear car rear end repair Safety Appliance Acts safety regulations SCHOEPPEL Senator LAUSCHE Senator PURTELL Senator SMATHERS signal speed standards statement stopped terminal tion train brakes train line truck VAWTER violation WARREN G Washington YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD
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Página 49 - train stops under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the flagman must go back immediately with flagman's signals a sufficient distance to insure full protection, placing two torpedoes and, when necessary, in addition, displaying lighted fusees.*
Página 172 - That duty is not being fully performed so long as the Commission lacks, the power to establish and enforce rules, standards, and instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of power brakes and power-brake appliances.
Página 1 - 85th Cong., 1st seas.] A BILL To amend part II of the Interstate Commerce Act to require the filing of brief statements by motor carriers subject only to the safety and hours of service regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission Be it enacted 6j/ the Senate ana, House of Representatives of the United, States
Página 239 - 3,000 members, residing in all of the States, who are engaged in growing, shipping, packing, and distributing fresh fruits and vegetables. Because of the nutritive value of fresh fruits and vegetables, their necessity in a balanced diet and their importance as protective foods, they play an important part in the food supply of this
Página 17 - would be revised to include, specifically, radioactive materials and etiologic agents. This section would also be expanded so the Commission may avail itself of the services, advice, and assistance of not only the Bureau for the Safe Transportation of Explosives and Other Dangerous Articles, as is now provided in the act,- but would also include the services, advice, and assistance of carrier and shipper associations.
Página 5 - shall remain the rules, standards, and instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of all power or train brakes, unless changed, after hearing, by order of the Commission. The provisions and requirements of
Página 244 - issue if this bill were enacted, are all designed to promote safety of railroad operations. They have no other reason for existence. These rules are not an end in themselves, but a means to an end, the end being, of course, safety of operations.
Página 6 - the bill (S. 1386) to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe rules, standards, and instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of power or train brakes. The bill would
Página 31 - (a) The date of testing or cleaning, and the initials of the shop or station at which the work is done, shall be legibly stenciled in a conspicuous place on the parts, or placed on a card displayed under glass in the cab of each locomotive unit. 8. (a) Minimum brake cylinder piston travel must be sufficient to provide proper
Página 5 - 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe rules, standards, and Instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of power or train brakes