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6(g).....Riding on open cars containing lading which may shift is prohibited, except as required to operate hand brakes or to ride the lead car when cars are being pushed. Employes must make every effort to station themselves to prevent injury, and on gondola cars must not stand or place arm, leg, or other part of body between sides or end of car and lading.

6(h).....Trainmen or other employes, when carrying baggage or other articles, except brake club and lantern, are prohibited from climbing up or walking over top of train.

6(i).....Employes are forbidden to ride on top or sides or stand on top of air dump cars, either loaded or empty.

6(j).....Jumping from the top of one car to the top of another car on adjacent track is prohibited.

6(k).....When passing around the end of a standing car or train, always keep a clearance of at least fifteen feet.

7.....Snow or ice should not be allowed to accumulate on footboards.

8.....Employes who desire to wear colored glasses while on duty are obliged to purchase them from Company storekeeper.

9.....Brakemen with less than one year of experience should not be used as flagman except in emergency, and then Superintendent will be notified by wire.

10.....Double heading trains is prohibited, except as authorized by Superintendent.

11.....When operating snow machines in non-block signal territory, no train should be permitted to follow closer than a station apart; when that cannot be done, they will be blocked not less than thirty minutes apart.

12.....After severe blizzard or dirt storm, employes on first train over road must exercise care to avoid accident caused by striking drift without first having drifts faced with hand shovels, cutting in far enough to get beyond the hard snow and giving a perpendicular wall to strike against instead of slope or wedgelike shape.

13.....When operating snow dozer, flanger will be operated by competent employe, and conductor in charge will ride in the dozer.

14.....On snow and dirt dozers,.every precaution must be taken to see that cage, flangers and wings clear all obstacles when in service and are properly secured when in thru trains, and dozers properly turned. Hand screws must be tightened to raise flangers on dozers as high as possible before making a back-up movement, and must not be released until the dozing work is actually to start. Hand screws holding the cage on dozers must be tightened or chains otherwise fastened, except when dozer has air in cylinders and is attended by an employee.

15.....Loaded dump cars should not be handled on double track after dark, but if necessary to do so, close watch must be kept by trainmen and if a car dumps its load, train must be stopped and protection afforded on the opposite track.

16.....Account necessity of heating road oil to permit faster flowing, such cars will not be spotted in the immediate vicinity of any buildings due to fire hazard.

17.....When dining cars or other non-platform cars are placed on the rear of passenger trains, in addition to flexible gate being closed and fastened in place, rear door of car must be kept locked with coach key.

18.....Kicking or dropping cars into tracks on which there are occupied outfit cars is prohibited.

19.....Baggage cars returned deadhead when moved in storage mail service in opposite direction will be accompanied by waybill carrying notation "Deadhead mail car, no material of any character other than U. S. Mail or mail sacks to be loaded in it". Conductors will be held responsible for compliance of waybill instructions.

20.....Baggage cars on trains 1 and 2, and dormitory cars on trains 3, 4, 7 and 8 carry 100 ft. of steam hose in two 50 ft. lengths for emergency use in the event of steam failure on the train engine and a non-steam train line engine is furnished to handle the train. On one of the 50 ft. lengths, one end is equipped with standard connection to fit steam dome of engine and other end equipped with standard Vapor No. 312 steam coupler which fits...