(c) The period of time within which hydrostatic and hammer tests are required to be made in accordance with § 91.406, may be extended for a period equal to the full calendar months the unit was out of service since the last such tests provided such service is performed within two consecutive years.

(d) Insulation dielectric tests of circuits, as required by § 91.447, may be extended for a period equal to the full calendar months the unit has been out of service.

§ 91.454 Reporting of accidents.

In the case of an accident resulting from failure of a unit, or any part or appurtenance thereof, or from coming in contact with an electrically energized part or appurtenance thereof, resulting in serious injury or death to one or more persons, the carrier on whose line the accident occurred shall immediately report such accident by telegram to the director, at his office in Washington, D.C. Such report should state the nature of the accident, number of persons killed or seriously injured, the place at which it occurred and the place where the unit may be inspected. The telegraphic report shall be confirmed by mail, giving a full detailed report of such accident, stating, as far as may be known, the causes, and giving a complete list of the killed and injured.

§ 91.455 Changes in construction.

Changes in construction which are necessary to meet the requirements of these rules shall be made as rapidly as conditions permit, and all such changes, except as otherwise specified, shall be completed before 6 months after April 1, 1956.

(a) (1) Each unit shall be equipped with the same complement of safety appliances as is required for passengertrain cars included in the classification comparable to it set up in the Commission's order of March 13, 1911, as amended. In cases where both ends of a unit do not fall into any single classification set up in the above-mentioned order, as amended, each end and the side at each end shall be provided with the same complement of safety appliances as is required for passenger-train cars of the classification within which each belongs.

(2) Units of construction not covered specifically in the above-mentioned order relative to handholds, sill-steps, ladders, and hand-brakes may be considered as of special construction, but shall have, as nearly as possible, the same complement of handholds, sillsteps, ladders, and hand-brakes as are required for cars of the nearest approximate type.

(b) Any unit equipped with a pilot which extends beyond the end of the unit must also be equipped, as near as possible, with the same complement of pilot sill-steps and pilot beam handholds as is required by the aforesaid order of March 13, 1911, as amended, for Steam Locomotives Used in Road Service.

(c) Units having headlights which cannot be safely and conveniently reached from end platforms shall be equipped with secure handholds and steps suitable for the use of men in getting to and from such headlights.

NOTE: Relief from the requirements of this rule will be granted upon an adequate showing by an individual carrier.

§ 91.457 Body structure.

(a) Units built new after April 1, 1956 and operated in trains having a total empty weight of 600,000 pounds or more shall have body structure designed to meet or exceed the following minimum specifications:

(1) The unit structure shall resist a minimum static end load of 800,000 pounds at the rear draft stops ahead of the bolster on the center line of draft, without developing any permanent deformation in any member of the unit structure.

arrangement

(2) An anti-climbing shall be applied at each end, designed so that coupled units under full compression shall mate in a manner which will resist one unit from climbing the other. This arrangement shall resist a vertical load of 100,000 pounds without exceeding the yield point of its various parts or its attachments to the unit structure.

(3) The coupler carrier and its connections to the unit structure shall be designed to resist a vertical downward thrust from the coupler shank of 100,000 pounds for any horizontal position of the coupler, without exceeding the yield points of the materials used. When yielding type of coupler carrier is used an auxiliary arrangement shall be pro

vided, designed in accordance with these requirements.

(4) The outside end of each unit shall be provided with two main vertical members, one at each side of the diaphragm opening. Each main member shall have an ultimate shear value of not less than 300,000 pounds at a point even with the top of the underframe member to which it is attached. The attachment of these members at bottom shall be sufficient to develop their full shear value. If reinforcement is used to provide the shear value such reinforcement shall have full value for a distance of 18 inches up from the underframe connection, then taper to a point approximately 30 inches above the underframe connection.

(5) Strength of locking means of truck to unit body shall be not less than the equivalent of an ultimate shear value of 250,000 pounds.

(b) Units built new after April 1, 1956, and operated in trains having a total empty weight of less than 600,000 pounds shall have body structure designed to meet or exceed the following minimum specifications:

(1) The unit structure shall resist a minimum static end load of 400,000 pounds at the rear draft stops ahead of the bolster on the center line of draft, without developing any permanent deformation in any member of the unit structure.

(2) An

anti-climbing arrangement shall be applied at each end designed so that coupled units under full compression shall mate in a manner which will resist one unit from climbing the other. This arrangement shall resist a vertical load of 75,000 pounds without exceeding the yield point of its various parts or its attachments to the unit structure.

(3) The coupler carrier and its connections to the unit structure shall be designed to resist a vertical downward thrust from the coupled shank of 75,000 pounds for any horizontal position of the coupler, without exceeding the yield points of the materials used. When a yielding type of coupler carrier is used an auxiliary arrangement shall be provided, designed in accordance with these requirements.

(4) The outside end of each unit shall be provided with two main vertical members, one at each side of the diaphragm opening. Each main member shall have

an ultimate shear value of not less than 200,000 pounds at a point even with the top of the underframe member to which it is attached. The attachments of these members at bottom shall be sufficient to develop their full shear value. If reinforcement is used to provide the shear value such reinforcement shall have full value for a distance of 18 inches up from the underframe connection, then taper to a point approximately 30 inches above the underframe connection.

(5) Strength of locking means of truck to unit body shall be not less than the equivalent of an ultimate shear value of 250,000 pounds.

PART 95-CAR SERVICE NOTE: Service orders issued under this part are published in the Federal Register.

§ 95.1000 Filing car service regulations with Commission.

Each of the common carriers by railroads, respondents in investigation No. 29669, is hereby notified and required to file with this Commission in duplicate its car service rules and regulations, under the first proviso of section 1(13) of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C. 1 (13)), on or before November 1, 1947, and thereafter to file with it any changes or amendments to such rules and regulations.

(Secs. 1, 12, 24 Stat. 379, 383, as amended; 49 U.S.C. 1, 12. [12 F.R. 5477, Aug. 12, 1947]

PART 97-ROUTING OF TRAFFIC

NOTE: Service orders issued under this part are published in the FEDERAI, REGISTER.

1 Filed with the Office of the Federal Register as part of the original document.

§ 101.01 Application of the regulations.

The regulations in this part apply to all carriers of classes designated in the order whether passes are issued or are honored for transportation wholly within one State or otherwise, and whether the operated mileage or termini of any such carrier be located entirely within the limits of one State or otherwise. § 101.1 Nonrevenue passenger service. All nonrevenue passenger service, whether transportation, meals, or sleeping, parlor, or other accommodations, except as provided in § 101.39 and §§ 101.42-101.50, furnished by steam roads, electric railways, carriers by water, and sleeping car companies, subject to the regulations in this part shall be covered by passes as prescribed in this part.

§ 101.2 General classes of passes.

(a) Passes issued shall consist of not more than eight general classes, viz:

(1) Annual or term passes for passage only.

(2) Annual or term passes for meals and sleeping, parlor, and other accommodations, but not including passage.

(3) Annual or term passes for passage, including meals and sleeping, parlor, and other accommodations.

(4) Trip passes for passage only. (5) Trip passes for meals and sleeping, parlor, and other accommodations, but not including passage.

(6) Trip passes for passage, including meals and sleeping, parlor, and other accommodations.

(7) Commuter passes. (8) Telegraph passes. Annual passes are those good until the end of the calendar year without restriction as to the number of trips.

Term passes are those good for a designated period of time other than a calendar year and without restriction as to the number of trips.

Trip passes are those good for a specified period of time and restricted to a single trip or to one round trip.

Commuter passes are those good for a specified period of time and restricted as to the number of trips. This form of pass need not be confined to suburban territory, but may be issued over any portion of a carrier's line.

Telegraph passes are those issued upon telegraphic or telephonic authority and restricted to a trip in one direction within a specified period of time.

(b) Carriers are at liberty to enlarge this classification of pass forms, provided it is done by subdividing any of the general classes, and provided further, that the record of pass stock received and distributed shows the distinctive features of pass forms so subdivided. (See § 101.12.) It is not desired that carriers file with the Commission samples of their passes.

(c) If the number of passes to be issued for meals and sleeping, parlor, and other accommodations, including passage, is relatively small, carriers are permitted to indorse a pass of any class prepared for passage only so as to include such accommodations as are to be furnished. (See § 101.54.)

§ 101.3 Officers issuing and requesting

passes.

Each carrier shall maintain in its files (a) a list of the names and titles of officers in whom is reposed the authority for issuance of free transportation and over whose signature passes will be issued, and (b) a list of the names and titles of officers having the authority to request free transportation of other carriers except that requests for passes may be honored when signed by retired employees of lines which have been abandoned subsequent to the date of their retirement and upon satisfactory evidence that they are on the pension roll of the Railroad Retirement Board.

[31 F.R. 5319, Apr. 2, 1966] § 101.4

Countersignatures.

The names and titles of persons authorized to countersign passes and requests for passes need not be filed with the Commission.

§ 101.5 Joint bureaus and associations. Requests for passes for or on account of officers or traffic employees of associations, fast freight lines, demurrage and car-service bureaus, weighing and inspection bureaus, and other joint agencies maintained by or on behalf of carriers subject to the regulations in this part, for transportation over the lines which are members of such associations may be made direct on such lines in the same manner as provided for requests for passes for or on account of a carrier's own officers or employees. (See § 101.27.)

Requests for passes over lines other than member lines must be made in one of the three following methods:

(a) Requests may be made over the signature of an officer of a member line if such officer's name is included in a list maintained by such member line in compliance with § 101.3 (b), with the countersignature of an officer or employee of the association.

(b) Requests may be made over the signature of an officer of the association if such officer's name is included in a list maintained in the files of one or more of the member lines in accordance with § 101.3(b), with appropriate evidence of authority to request passes on account of the association.

(c) Requests may be made over the signatures of officers of the association if such officers' names are included in a list maintained in the files of the association, in accordance with § 101.3(b), provided authority has been appropriately delegated to the officers by the member lines to request passes on account of the association.

[16 F.R. 9901, Sept. 28, 1951, as amended at 31 F.R. 11551, Sept. 1, 1966]

§ 101.6 Signature of issuing officers.

Each pass (except a telegraph pass) must bear the signature of an issuing officer named in the list referred to in § 101.3 (a). This signature may be an autograph or a facsimile printed on the pass, or it may be impressed by a mechanical device or by any other means. Since the carrier has the obligation to safeguard the authenticity of passes, the carrier may also determine if this can be done more expeditiously than by autograph signatures. If the carrier requires a countersignature by a subordinate designated on the pass, such countersignature may also be affixed by any method acceptable to the issuing carrier.

[18 F. R. 1942, Apr. 8, 1953] § 101.7

[Reserved]

§ 101.8 Ordering and storing pass stock.

The ordering of all pass stock must be confined to requisitions made by a single designated officer and delivery of the entire stock must be made to him. All vouchers or bills covering the cost of pass stock shall be approved by the officer making requisition therefor before they are carried through the accounts for payment. Unissued pass stock must

All passes (except telegraph passes issued on telegraph blanks) shall be consecutively numbered before or immediately upon receipt from the printer or stationer. No two passes of the same general class shall bear the same number without an indicative letter prefixed or affixed. Unless all passes are numbered in one series, each general class adopted shall constitute a series of numbers and each subdivision of any general class adopted shall constitute a series of numbers with an indicative letter prefixed or affixed.

§ 101.10 Pass stock used more than 1 year.

If a separate stock of passes is provided for each year the numbering must begin with 0 or 1 at the beginning of the year. If the same stock is used

for 2 or more years the numbers may continue consecutively from year to year, commencing with 0 or 1 when desired, but not oftener than once in each calendar year.

§ 101.11

Letter prefix to pass numbers.

If adherence to the regulations in this part would result in passes carrying numbers consisting of more than five figures, a new series of numbers beginning with 0 or 1 with a letter prefixed may be adopted, provided the letter so prefixed does not occur on any other class of passes.

§ 101.12 Record of pass stock received and distributed.

A record of pass stock received and distributed must be kept by the officer ordering the pass stock. (See Form 9.) Each of the different forms and series of passes received must be entered on separate sheets or pages and must be recorded and distributed in numerical order. This record must show the form of pass, also the distinctive features of any pass prepared as a subdivision of any of the general classes as provided in § 101.2(b). On the debit side of the record must be entered the entire pass stock received. On the credit side must be entered all pass stock distributed among other officers or countersigning subordinates, all stock assigned to the officer ordering the stock and issuable by him, and all pass stock destroyed. (For the periods of retention see regulations 91