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HAND SIGNALS

  7. Personnel whose duties may require them to give hand signals, must provide themselves with the proper appliances, keep them in good order and ready for immediate use.

  7(A). Personnel in train, engine or yard service and others concerned must keep a constant lookout for hand signals. Personnel giving hand signals must locate themselves so as to be plainly seen, and give them so as to be plainly understood.

HAND, FLAG AND LANTERN SIGNALS

  Note: The hand or a flag, moved the same as the lamp as illustarted in the following figures, gives the same indication.
hand sig fig 1

  8(a). Stop - Swung across the track.

hand sig fig 4
hand sig fig 2

  8(b). Reduce Speed - Held horizontally at arm's length, when the train is moving.

hand sig fig 3

  8(c). Proceed - Raised and lowered vertically.
hand sig fig 5

  8(d). Back - Swung vertically in a circle at half arm's length across the track.

  8(e). Train Has Parted - Swung vertically in a circle at arm's length across the track.

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