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The second section prohibits such a carrier from hauling or using on its line in moving interstate traffic any car not equipped with couplers which can be coupled and uncoupled automatically "without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars", and the fourth section forbids the use in
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January 1, 1898, unlawful for a common carrier used for interstate commerce to use locomotive engine not equipped with a power driving-wheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brake system. Also need sufficient number of cars equipped with power or train brakes so engineer in
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American Railway Association is authorized to set standard height of drawbars for freight cars and fix maximum variation from such standard heights to be allowed between drawbars of empty and loaded cars. Will submit these standards to the Interstate Commerce
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Section 1, he/it may refuse to receive the connecting lines of road or shippers of any cars not equipped in such a manner.
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Interstate Commerce Commission says otherwise, unlawful for RR company to use any car in interstate commerce that doesn't have secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car (more secure for men who couple and uncouple cars.)
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interstate commerce of any car not provided with secure grab irons or hand holds on the ends and sides of the car "for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars". The sixth section imposes for every violation of the act a penalty of $ 100.
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was also very hazardous. The rise in accidents led to calls for safety legislation, as early as the 1870s. In the 1880s, on-the-job deaths of railroad workers were second only to those of coal miners. Through that decade, several
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minor exception were satisfied. By its second section this act requires that not less than 50 percent of the cars in a train shall have their train brakes used and operated by the engineer on the locomotive, and confers upon the
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hose and grab bars, all mandated by the Safety
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Commission, which will inform the carriers. If ARA fails to set standard, ICC will do so before July 1, 1894. After July 1, 1895, no cars can be used that don't comply.
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Driving-wheel Brakes, and for Other Purposes." Its first section makes it unlawful, among other things, for a railroad company engaged in
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couplers, which were widely used then. The operation of
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United States. Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970.
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348:History of rail transport in the United States
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384:The Federal Railroad Safety Program
316:Rail Safety Improvement Act of 1988
301:Rail Safety Improvement Act of 1974
290:authority to issue emergency orders
278:Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970
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492:Tooltip Public Law (United States)
335:United States v. Erie Railroad Co.
16:1893 US federal railway safety law
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870:United States railroad regulation
484:Department of Transportation Act.
258:Department of Transportation Act
171:Can't receive cars not equipped.
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243:Interstate Commerce Commission
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85:coupling and uncoupling
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137:Summary of sections
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698:New York Air Brake
689:Faiveley Transport
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651:Railway disc brake
611:Eddy current brake
601:Countersteam brake
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631:Hand brake
359:References
236:Amendments
127:air brakes
75:After the
71:Background
49:air brakes
47:that made
23:Modern US
776:Air brake
725:Brake van
256:The 1966
224:Section 8
213:Section 7
202:Section 6
190:Section 5
178:Section 4
166:Section 3
154:Section 2
142:Section 1
77:Civil War
65:railroads
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342:See also
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112:1893 act
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