---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 218.25"
title: "49"
number: "218.25"
heading: "Workers on a main track."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/218.25"
---

# §218.25. Workers on a main track.


When workers are on, under, or between rolling equipment on a main track:

- (a) A blue signal must be displayed at each end of the rolling equipment; and
- (b) If the rolling equipment to be protected includes one or more locomotives, a blue signal must be attached to the controlling locomotive at a location where it is readily visible to the engineman or operator at the controls of that locomotive.
- (c) When emergency repair work is to be done on, under, or between a locomotive or one or more cars coupled to a locomotive, and blue signals are not available, the engineman or operator must be notified and effective measures must be taken to protect the workers making the repairs.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 2175, Jan. 10, 1979, as amended at 48 FR 6123, Feb. 10, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20131, 20138, 20144, 20168; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 2175, Jan. 10, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 2175, Jan. 10, 1979, as amended at 48 FR 6123, Feb. 10, 1983]