Missouri Revised Statutes

Chapter 389
Regulation of Railroad Corporations
Section 389.880

August 28, 2007


Locomotive cabs to be enclosed and heated.

389.880. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, operating a line of steam railroad in this state, to use or permit to be used within the state of Missouri, any steam locomotive engine, between the first day of October and the first day of April of the next succeeding year, unless the inside of the cab on such locomotive engine shall be supplied and equipped with not less than sixteen square feet of heating radiation on each side thereof; and unless such locomotive engine shall be supplied and equipped with suitable curtain or curtains, to be located between the tender and cab of such locomotive engine, in such manner as to exclude the rain, snow or wind from entering the cab thereof, nor unless any openings in the deck, running board or floor of such cab or the openings or windows in the sides and front of such cab shall be constructed so that said openings or windows may be so securely closed as to prevent as nearly as practicable wind, snow or rain from entering said openings or windows.

(RSMo 1939 § 5272)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 4840; 1919 § 10027


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