Railroad Track and Bridge Inspection: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 1888...March 26, 29, and 30, 19371937 - 177 páginas |
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accident is believed accident was caused accidents due AUGUSTINE LONERGAN average BALL ballast bill broken rail carriers cars Chicago class I railroads class I railways class of accidents committee common carrier culverts curve death decrease due to defects employees engine equipment exhibit expenditures failure Federal inspector freight train gage improper maintenance improvement inches increased indicated injury inspection Interstate Commerce Commission investigation KELLER legislation locomotive maintained maintenance-of-way man-hours ment mileage miles of track miles per hour Missouri Pacific Railroad NEUBERT number of train operation passenger train percent period persons Total plates point of accident point of derailment rail joints Railway record reduction repairs resulted roadbed rules safe safety section foreman Senator BONE Senator LONERGAN Senator MURRAY shows speed spikes standards statement structures superelevation switch Switch rod things tion Total cas Total number track conditions trackage tracks and bridges traffic train accidents train-miles trestles ualties to persons
Passagens conhecidas
Página 36 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Página 35 - 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 couplere coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Página 3 - Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America National Organization Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America National Marine Engineers...
Página 35 - 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...
Página 78 - USC 205 (m)), namely, any common carrier by railroad engaged in the transportation of persons or property in interstate commerce, except a street, a suburban, or interurban electric railway which is not operated as a part of a general railroad system of transportation or which does not derive more than 50 percent of its operating revenues from the transportation of freight in standard steam railroad freight equipment. (c) As used in section 108 (b) and this section, the term "indebtedness...
Página 79 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Fred H.
Página 35 - That it shall be the duty of the general manager, superintendent, or other proper officer of every common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad to make to the Interstate Commerce Commission, at its office in Washington, District of Columbia, a monthly report, under oath, of all collisions, derailments, or other acccidents resulting in injury to persons, equipment, or roadbed arising from the operation of such railroad...
Página 35 - ... shall be held to apply to common carriers by railroads in the Territories and the District of Columbia, and shall apply in all cases, whether or not the couplers brought together are of the same kind, make, or type ;" and " shall be held to apply to all trains, locomotives, tenders, cars, and similar vehicles used on any railroad engaged in interstate commerce.
Página 35 - An Act requiring common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and authorizing investigations thereof by said Commission', approved May 6, 1910 (USC, 1934 ed., title 45, sees.
Página 36 - Act to require or permit any employee subject to this Act to be or remain on duty for a longer period than sixteen consecutive hours, and whenever any such employee of such common carrier shall have been continuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty...