When turntables are found unlocked, and when tables or locks are out of order, report at once to the Superintendent by wire.
Turntables must be locked with a switch-lock by enginemen and others immediately after use, except when in charge of employees.
Such plates need only be applied where the line is always wet, or in workshops where the use of turntables is not of frequent occurrence.
When turntables are required for permanent lines, and to sustain heavy burdens, turntables with a cast iron box are required, constructed on the principle of the turntables of ordinary railways.
We shall need the turntables as long as we continue to use steam as a motive power, and the early method of grouping storage tracks and radii from the table has never lost its favor with operating officers.
Care to be taken to keep all turntables at safe distances from the adjacent lines of rails, so that engines, waggons, or carriages, when being turned, may not foul other lines or endanger the traffic upon them.
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