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Hours of service. The hours of service limit the driving hours of truck drivers and bus drivers. Hours of service ( HOS) regulations are issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and govern the working hours of anyone operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in the United States.
General Code of Operating Rules. The General Code of Operating Rules ( GCOR) is a set of operating rules for railroads in the United States. The GCOR is used by Class I railroads west of Chicago, most of the Class II railroads, and many Short-line railroads. [1]
A railroad chronometer or railroad standard watch is a specialized timepiece that once was crucial for safe and correct operation of trains in many countries. A system of timetable and train order , which relied on highly accurate timekeeping, was used to ensure that two trains could not be on the same stretch of track at the same time.
Passenger trains are limited to 59 mph and freight trains to 49 mph on track without block signal systems. (See dark territory .) Trains without "an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or automatic train control system "may not exceed 79 mph." The order was issued in 1947 (effective December 31, 1951) by the Interstate Commerce ...
Rail transport. A train in Alaska transporting crude oil in March 2006. Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. [1] Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport.
Rail transport operations are the day-to-day operations of a railway. A railway has two major components: the infrastructure (the permanent way, tracks, stations, freight facilities, viaducts, tunnels, etc.) and the rolling stock (the passenger coaches, locomotives, freight cars, etc.) Ownership and operation of these two components varies by ...
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...
The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and mediation for strikes to resolve labor disputes. Its provisions were originally enforced under the Board of Mediation ...