Railroad Track and Bridge Inspection: Hearings...on S. 543...June 3, 4, and 7, 1935 |
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acci accident is believed accident was caused accidents due appurtenances thereto AUGUSTINE LONERGAN average ballast broken rail carriers cars charged Chattanooga & St Chicago chief inspector class I railroads committee common carrier cost culverts curve death decreased due to defects employees engine equipment exhibit expenditures expense failure Federal inspection freight train gage gang guard rail improper maintenance inches increased injury inspection of tracks Interstate Commerce Commission investigation Island & Pacific KELLER Killed Injured dents labor maintained maintenance-of-way ment mileage miles of track miles per hour Missouri Pacific Missouri Pacific Railroad NEUBERT number of train operating PARMELEE passenger train percent period point of accident point of derailment railroad properties record reduced resulted revenue safe safety section foreman Senator BONE Senator LONERGAN Senator MURRAY Senator SHIPSTEAD speed spikes statement superelevation tion ton-miles Total number track conditions track structure track walkers tracks and bridges traffic train accidents trestles United wrecks
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Page 59 - 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 58 - 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.
Page 58 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission shall have authority to investigate all collisions, derailments, or other accidents resulting in serious injury to person or to the property of a railroad occurring on the line of any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad.
Page 3 - ... 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, 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.
Page 3 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 134 - The authority of the Commission conferred by paragraphs (18) to (21), both inclusive, shall not extend to the construction or abandonment of spur, industrial, team, switching or side tracks, located or to be located wholly within one State, or of street, suburban, or interurban electric railways, which are not operated as a part or parts of a general steam railroad system of transportation.
Page 1 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, at 10:30 am, pursuant to call, in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Augustine Lonergan presiding.
Page 59 - ... shall also be required to make examination of the construction, adaptability, design, and condition of all mail cars used on any railroad in the United States and make report thereon, a copy of which report shall be transmitted to the Postmaster General.
Page 58 - All cars must be equipped with secure sill steps and efficient hand brakes; all cars requiring secure ladders and secure running boards shall be equipped with such ladders and running boards, and all cars having ladders shall also be equipped with secure hand holds or grab irons on their roofs at the tops of such ladders...
Page 2 - To this end each carrier subject to this act shall file with the inspector in charge, under the oath of the proper officer or employee, a duplicate of the report of each inspection required by such rules and regulations, and shall also file with such inspector; under the oath of the proper officer or employee, a report showing the repair of the defects disclosed by the inspection.