Prohibits railroads from operating trains exceeding eight thousand five hundred feet in total length on any main track or branch line

Summary

The bill would prohibit any railroad in Missouri from operating a train whose total length exceeds 8,500 feet on a main track or branch line. It also authorizes the Department of Transportation to create rules, measurement procedures, exemptions and penalties to enforce the limit, subject to existing rulemaking statutes. The measure failed to advance.

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