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 couplers coupling automatically by impact, and... The Pacific Reporter - Page 2201910Full view - About this book
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1961 - 1138 pages
...the Safety Appliance Acts, making it unlawful to operate any car not equipped with automatic couplers and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. They also contend that the provisions of this rule are in conflict with those proposed in rule 91.201.... | |
| Railroad law - 1913 - 554 pages
...the Railway Act requires every railway company to provide cars with couplers coupling by impact, that can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of cars, the fact that a car, which in the interchange of traffic, under sec. 317 of the Railway Act was... | |
| David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 758 pages
...follows : "Section 2. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1898, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its lines any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1966 - 972 pages
...complaint before this Commission of any lad of adequacy in their couplings. Concerning the key phrase "which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the end of cars," there is evidence of some difficulty in uncoupling these cars in the Atlanta yards of... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1968 - 466 pages
...shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of sections 11 — 16 of this title to haul, or permit to be hauled or used on its line, any car subject to the provisions of said sections not equipped with appliances provided for in said sections,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce - 1969 - 460 pages
...Cars must be equipped with automatic couplers so that cars can be coupled automatically by impact and can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars. Cars must be equipped with secure grab irons or handholds on their sides and ends for use in coupling... | |
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