1. Regulations
  2. title 49
  3. chapter II
  4. part 229
  5. subpart C
  6. subjgrp 27
  7. § 229.79

View all text of Subjgrp 27 [§ 229.77 - § 229.91]

§ 229.79 - Third rail shoes.

When locomotives are equipped with both third rail and overhead collectors, third-rail shoes shall be deenergized while in yards and at stations when current collection is exclusively from the overhead conductor.

AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20133, 20137-38, 20143, 20168, 20701-03, 21301-02, 21304, 28 U.S.C. 2461, note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

SOURCE: 45 FR 21109, Mar. 31, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 49 CFR 229.79