itutes a safety appliance, as applied to a locomotive?

A. Any appliance that is placed on a locomotive for the purpose of
protecting the employees from personal injury.

4. Q. Name some of the safety appliances found on a locomotive?

A. Shield for tubular glass lubricators, also shields for water glass,
automatic couplers, with lever attachments, air brakes, etc.

5. Q. In what condition should safety appliances be maintained?

A. They should be maintained in first class condition.

6. Q. What should be done in event of any of the safety appliances being
damaged while engine is in service so as to render it unsafe?

A. Warn all employees whose duties require them to work around the
locomotive of its unsafe condition, then make report to those in
authority so that it may be taken out of service until repairs are made.

7. Q. What effort should be made on the part of the engineer to prevent
persons using a safety appliance which he knows is damaged and unsafe?

A. He should use such precaution as in his judgment would protect from
injury all persons who are on or around the locomotive.

8. Q. What is the duty of the engineer in event of his discovering a
safety appliance which is in an unsafe condition when taking an engine
from roundhouse territory?

A. He should report at once to the person in authority so that necessary
repairs may be made before engine goes into service.

=PYLE-NATIONAL ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT=

1. Q. Why are electric headlights applied to locomotives?

A. Electric headlights are applied to locomotives so that the engineer
may have a clear view of the track for enough ahead of the train to
enable him to protect the company's property in his charge.

2. Q. How far ahead of the engine should the arc headlight illuminate
the track?

A. Not less than from fifteen to twenty telegraph poles.

3. Q. State how you would focus the lamp.

A. First, would adjust back of the reflector so front edge of reflector
will be parallel with front edge of case. Second, adjust the lamp to
have point of copper electrode as near the center of reflector as
possible with carbons as near the center of the chimney holes as you can
set them. Third, have the locomotive on straight track. Now move the
base of the lamp around until you get a parallel beam of white light
straight down the center of the track, then tighten the lamp down.

4. Q. If the light throws shadows upon the track, is it properly
focuse