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Definitions........................................  12
Forms of Train Orders..............................  53
General Notice.....................................   7
General Regulations for Employes...................  85
   Baggage Agents.................................. 100
   Baggagemen......................................  91
   Captains of Police.............................. 125
   Car Inspectors.................................. 114
   Chief Dispatchers............................... 101
   Crossing Watchmen............................... 126
   Division Engineers.............................. 115
   Enginehouse Foremen............................. 113
   Enginemen....................................... 108
   Firemen......................................... 110
   Freight Brakemen................................  91
   Freight Conductors..............................  93
   Levermen........................................  97
   Linemen......................................... 106
   Master Carpenters............................... 116
   Master Mechanics................................ 111
   Passenger Brakemen..............................  90
   Passenger Conductors............................  88
   Road Foremen of Equipment....................... 107
   Signal Engineers................................ 117
   Station Agents..................................  98
   Station Masters.................................  87
   Supervisors..................................... 118
   Switch Tenders..................................  96
   Telegraph Operators............................. 103
   Track and Bridge Watchmen....................... 123
   Track Foremen................................... 120
   Train Dispatchers............................... 102
   Train Masters...................................  86
   Yard Masters....................................  92
General Rules......................................  11
Rules for Movement by Train Orders.................  41
Telegraph Block System.............................  69
Train Rules........................................  19
   Classification of Trains........................  30
   Movement of Trains..............................  31
   Signal Rules....................................  21
   Time-Tables.....................................  20

The rules herein set forth govern the railroads operated by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. They take effect August 1, 1904, superseding all previous rules and instructions inconsistent therewith.

Special instructions may be issued by proper authority.

H. I. MILLER,
General Manager.

To enter or remain in the service is an assurance of willingness to obey the rules.

Obedience to the rules is essential to the safety of passengers and employes, and to the protection of property.

The service demands the faithful, intelligent and courteous discharge of duty.

To obtain promotion capacity must be shown for greater responsibility.

Employes, in accepting employment, assume its risks.

A. Employes whose duties are prescribed by these rules must provide themselves with a copy.

B. Employes must be conversant with and obey the rules and special instructions. If in doubt as to their meaning they must apply to proper authority for an explanation.

C. Employes must pass the required examinations.

D. Persons employed in any service on trains are subject to the rules and special instructions.

E. Employes must render every assistance in their power in carrying out the rules and special instructions.

F. Any violation of the rules or special instructions must be reported.

G. The use of intoxicants by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their habitual use, or the frequenting of places where they are sold, is sufficient cause for dismissal.

H. The use of tobacco by employes when on duty in or about passenger stations, or on passenger cars, is prohibited.

J. Employes on duty must wear the prescribed badge and uniform and be neat in appearance.

K. Persons authorized to transact business at stations or on trains must be orderly and avoid annoyance to passengers.

L. In case of danger to the Company's property employes must unite to protect it.

M. Accidents, detention of trains, failure in the supply of water or fuel, or defects in the track or bridges, must be promptly reported by telegraph to the Superintendent and Chief Dispatcher.

TRAIN--An engine, or more than one engine coupled, with or without cars, displaying Markers.

REGULAR TRAIN--A train represented on the time-table. It may consist of Sections.

SECTION--One of two or more trains running on the same schedule displaying signals or for which signals are displayed.

EXTRA TRAIN--A train not represented on the time-table. It may be designated as:
Extra--for any extra train, except work extra;
Work extra--for work train extra.

SUPERIOR TRAIN--A train having precedence over other trains. A train may be made superior to another train by RIGHT, CLASS or DIRECTION.
RIGHT is conferred by train order; CLASS and DIRECTION by time-table.
RIGHT is superior to CLASS or DIRECTION. DIRECTION is superior as between trains of the same class.
Superiority by direction is limited to single track.

TRAIN OF SUPERIOR RIGHT--A train given precedence by train order.

TRAIN OF SUPERIOR CLASS--A train given precedence by time-table.

TRAIN OF SUPERIOR DIRECTION--A train given precedence in the direction specified in the time-table as between trains of the same class.

TIME-TABLE--The authority for the movement of regular trains subject to the rules. It contains the classified schedules of trains with special instructions relating thereto.

SCHEDULE--That part of a time-table which prescribes the class, direction, number and movement of a regular train.

MAIN TRACK--A principal track upon which trains are operated by time-table, train orders or by block signals.

SINGLE TRACK--A main track upon which trains are operated in both directions.

DOUBLE TRACK--Two main tracks, upon one of which the current of traffic is in a specified direction, and upon the other in the opposite direction.

CURRENT OF TRAFFIC--The direction in which trains will move on a main track, under the rules.

STATION--A place designated on the time-table by name, at which a train may stop for traffic; or to enter or leave the main track; or from which fixed signals are operated.

SIDING--A track auxiliary to the main track for meeting or passing trains.

FIXED SIGNAL--A signal of fixed location indicating a condition affecting the movement of a train.

YARD--A system of tracks within defined limits provided for the making up of trains, storing of cars and other purposes, over which movements not authorized by time-table, or by train order, may be made, subject to prescribed signals and regulations.

YARD ENGINE--An engine assigned to yard service and working within yard limits.

PILOT--A person assigned to a train when the engineman or conductor, or both, are not fully acquainted with the physical characteristics or running rules of the road, or portion of the road, over which the train is to be moved.

BLOCK.--A length of track of defined limits, the use of which by trains is controlled by block signals.

BLOCK STATION.--A place from which block signals are operated.

BLOCK SIGNAL.--A fixed signal controlling the use of a block.

HOME BLOCK SIGNAL.--A fixed signal at the entrance of a block to control trains in entering and using said block,

DISTANT BLOCK SIGNAL.--A fixed signal used in connection with a home block signal to regulate the approach thereto.

BLOCK SYSTEM.--A series of consecutive blocks.

TELEGRAPH BLOCK SYSTEM.-A block system in which the signals are operated manually, upon information by telegraph.

AUTOMATIC BLOCK SYSTEM.--A block system in which the signals are operated by electric, pneumatic or other agency actuated by a train, or by certain conditions affecting the use of a block.

INTERLOCKING.--All arrangement of switch, lock and signal appliances so interconnected that their movements must succeed each other in a pre-determined order.

INTERLOCKING PLANT.--An assemblage of switch, lock and signal appliances, interlocked.

INTERLOCKING STATION.--A place from which an interlocking plant is operated.

INTERLOCKING SIGNALS.--The fixed signals of an interlocking plant.

HOME SIGNAL.--A fixed signal at the point at which trains are required to stop when the route is not clear.

DISTANT SIGNAL.--A fixed signal used in connection with a home signal to regulate the approach thereto.

DWARF SIGNAL.--A low fixed signal.

1. Standard Time obtained from Washington observatory will be telegraphed to all points from designated offices at Twelve (12) o'clock, noon (Central Time), or Eleven (11) o'clock, a. m. (Mountain Time).

2. Watches that have been examined and certified to by a designated Inspector must be used by Train Dispatchers, Conductors and Enginemen. The certificate in prescribed form must be renewed and filed with the Superintendent every three months.

3. Watches of Conductors and Enginemen must be compared, before starting on each trip, with a, clock designated as a Standard Clock. The time when watches are compared, with variation, must be registered on a prescribed form.

a. Conductors and Enginemen who have not access to a Standard Clock must compare watches daily with those of Conductors and Enginemen who have Standard Time.

b. Conductors and Enginemen who have not opportunity to compare their watches with those of Conductors and Enginemen who have Standard Time, will call for and receive time from the Train Dispatcher daily before commencing work.

c. After obtaining time, Conductors and Enginemen must compare time with each other before starting on each trip or commencing the daily work.

4. Each Time-table, from the moment it takes effect, supersedes the preceding Time-table. A train of the preceding Time-table shall retain its train orders and take the schedule of the train of the same number on the new Time-table.

A train of the new Time-table which has not the same number on the preceding Time-table shall not run on any division until it is due to start from its initial station on that division, after the Time-table takes effect.

5. Not more than two times are given for a train at any station; where one is given, it is, unless otherwise indicated, the leaving time; where two, they are the arriving and the leaving time.

Unless otherwise indicated, the time applies to the switch where an inferior train enters the siding ; where there is no siding it applies to the place from which fixed signals are operated; where there is neither siding nor fixed signal, it applies to the place where traffic is received or discharged.

Schedule meeting or passing points are indicated by figures in full-faced type.

Both the arriving and leaving times of a train are in full-faced type when both are meeting or passing times, or when one or more trains are to meet or pass it between those times.

When a train takes a siding, extending between two adjoining telegraph stations, to be passed by one or more trains, the time at each end of the siding will be shown in full-faced type.

The numbers of the trains to be met or passed will be shown in small type adjoining the full-faced type.

6. The following signs placed opposite stations or schedule figures indicate:
"s"--Regular stop.
"f"--Flag stop to receive or discharge passengers or freight.
"¶"--Stop for meals.
"D"--Day telegraph office.
"N"--Night telegraph office only.
"DN"--Day and night telegraph office.

7. Employes whose duties may require them to give signals, must provide themselves with the proper appliances, keep them in good order and ready for immediate use.

8. Flags of the prescribed color must be used by day, and lamps of the prescribed color by night.

9. Night signals must be displayed from sunset to sunrise. When weather or other conditions obscure day signals, night signals must be used in addition.

10.

11. A fusee on or near the track burning red must not be passed until burned out.
When burning green it is a caution signal.

12.

MANNER OF USING.	INDICATION.
(a) Swung across the track.	Stop.
(b) Raised and lowered vertically.	Proceed.
(c) Swung vertically in a circle at half-arm's length across the track, when the train is standing.	Back.
(d) Swung vertically in a circle at arm's length across the track, when the train is running.	Train has parted.
(e) Swung horizontally at arm's length above the head, when train is standing.	Apply air Brakes.
(f) Held at arm's length above the head, when train is standing.	Release Air Brakes.

13. Any object waved violently by any one on or near the track is a signal to stop.