[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR220.11]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 220_RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 220.11  Requirements for roadway workers.



    (a) On and after July 1, 1999, the following requirements apply to a 

railroad that has 400,000 or more annual employee work hours:

    (1) Maintenance-of-way equipment operating without locomotive 

assistance between work locations shall have



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a working radio on at least one such unit in each multiple piece of 

maintenance-of-way equipment traveling together under the same movement 

authority. The operators of each additional piece of maintenance-of-way 

equipment shall have communications capability with each other.

    (2) Each maintenance-of-way work group shall have intra-group 

communications capability upon arriving at a work site.

    (b) On and after July 1, 1999, each employee designated by the 

employer to provide on-track safety for a roadway work group or groups, 

and each lone worker, shall be provided, and where practicable, shall 

maintain immediate access to a working radio. When immediate access to a 

working radio is not available, the employee responsible for on-track 

safety or lone worker shall be equipped with a radio capable of 

monitoring transmissions from train movements in the vicinity. A 

railroad with fewer than 400,000 annual employee work hours may provide 

immediate access to working wireless communications as an alternative to 

a working radio.

    (c) This section does not apply to:

    (1) Railroads which have fewer than 400,000 annual employee work 

hours, and which do not operate trains in excess of 25 miles per hour; 

or

    (2) Railroad operations where the work location of the roadway work 

group or lone worker:

    (i) Is physically inaccessible to trains; or

    (ii) Has no through traffic or traffic on adjacent tracks during the 

period when roadway workers will be present.