PURPOSE: This rule prescribes what equipment shall be found on self-propelled railroad motor cars.

1. (1) A motor car, for purposes of this rule, is a self-propelled unit of on-track work equipment used primarily for transportation of personnel, except one which can be immediately removed from the track by hand and which weighs no more than four hundred (400) pounds.
2. (2) No railroad company operating a railroad line within this state shall use, or permit to be used, any self-propelled motor car upon the railroad line between the first day of November and the first day of April of the next year, unless the motor car is equipped with a heater, a top and side curtains or windows, except as otherwise provided in this rule.
3. (3) Exceptions. The requirements of section
4. (2) of this rule shall not apply to—a) motor cars used in emergency situations if no motor car equipped in accordance with section (2) of this rule is readily available or b) motor cars used exclusively within yard limits.
5. (4) Heaters shall not be required on motor cars regularly transporting employees between job sites less than five (5) miles apart or on motor cars used no more than five
6. (5) days in any month.
7. (5) Each track motor car used and operated in this state by a railroad company shall be equipped with at least one (1) generator-powered headlight, at least one (1) taillight, a safety glass windshield and automatic windshield wipers.

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo 1986.* Emergency rule filed June 14, 1985, effective July 1, 1985, expired Oct. 28, 1985. Original rule filed Aug. 1, 1985, effective Oct. 29, 1985. Amended: Filed May 2, 1991, effective Dec. 9, 1991. *Original authority 1985.