Author: James Lilly

Safety Rule

April 2024

Working around Trains, Cars, Yards, and Stations Rule 37. Care must be exercised in piling coal on the tanks of engines to prevent its falling

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Announcement

W&OD Ephemera

We’re interesting 1945 ticket stub from the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad, a historic Northern Virginia short line. Courtesy of DCNRHS Collection. All rights reserved.

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Safety Rule

March 2024

Working around Trains, Cars, Yards, and Stations Rule 42. Carefully observe the condition of lading of cars containing lumber, pipe, scrap or other such materials;

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Safety Rule

February 2024

Rule 15. When possible avoid walking through escaping steam. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Safety Rules, Effective May 1, 1920

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Safety Rule

January 2024

S. 94. A train which overtakes another train so disabled that it cannot proceed, may pass it, if practicable, proceed to the next open telegraph

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December 2023

Handling of United States Mail Rule 530. When passenger trains handling mail cars are run in two or more sections, mail cars will, if practicable,

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November 2023

Air Brakes Rule 552. Before commencing the descent of steep grades and approaching locations where failure of brakes would be attended with hazard, Engineers must

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40 Years Ago

Locomotive PRR 7240 was built in October 1959 by the General Motor’ Electro-Motive Division (EMD) at its LaGrange, IL, facility for the Pennsylvania Railroad as

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