[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 49CFR231.29]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 231_RAILROAD SAFETY APPLIANCE STANDARDS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  231.29  Road locomotives with corner stairways.



    After September 30, 1979, road locomotives with corner stairway 

openings must be equipped with (a) uncoupling mechanisms that can be 

operated safely from the bottom stairway opening step as well as ground 

level, and (b) the vertical handholds and horizontal end handholds 

prescribed in Sec.  231.30(e) and (g). No part of the uncoupling 

mechanism may extend into the stairway opening or end platform area when 

the mechanism is in its normal position or when it is operated. Each 

carrier shall so equip forty percent (40 percent) of its road 

locomotives by October 1, 1977, seventy percent (70 percent) by October 

1, 1978, and all its road locomotives by October 1, 1979.



[41 FR 37783, Sept. 8, 1976]