---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 229.79"
title: "49"
number: "229.79"
heading: "Third rail shoes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/229.79"
---

# §229.79. Third rail shoes.


When locomotives are equipped with both third rail and overhead collectors, third-rail shoes shall be deenergized while in yards and at stations when current collection is exclusively from the overhead conductor.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20133, 20137-38, 20143, 20168, 20701-03, 21301-02, 21304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 21109, Mar. 31, 1980, unless otherwise noted.