[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: 49CFR236.17]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 236_RULES, STANDARDS, AND INSTRUCTIONS GOVERNING THE INSTALLATION, 

INSPECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF SIGNAL AND TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS, 

DEVICES, AND APPLIANCES--Table of Contents

 

              Subpart A_Rules and Instructions: All Systems

 

Sec. 236.17  Pipe for operating connections, requirements.



    (a) Steel or wrought-iron pipe one inch or larger, or members of 

equal strength, shall be used for operating connections for switches, 

derails, movable-point frogs, facing-point locks, rail-locking devices 

of movable bridge protected by interlocking, and mechanically operated 

signals, except up-and-down rod which may be three-fourths inch pipe or 

solid rod. Pipe shall be fully screwed into coupling and both ends of 

each pipe shall be riveted to pipe plug with 2 rivets.

    (b) Pipeline shall not be out of alignment sufficiently to interfere 

with proper operation, shall be properly compensated for temperature 

changes, and supported on carriers spaced not more than 8 feet apart on 

tangent and curve of less than 2[deg] and not more than 7 feet apart on 

curve of 2[deg] or more. With lever in any position, couplings in pipe 

line shall not foul carriers.



[49 FR 3383, Jan. 26, 1984]