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Railway Network (Line) - Data Dictionary

Abstract: The Rail Network is a comprehensive database of the nation's railway system at the 1:100,000 scale. The data set covers all 50 States plus the District of Columbia.

Purpose: The data set provides location and partial attribute information for use in national and regional network analysis applications.
Supplemental_Information: At the time of publishing the CD significant updates to the layer were underway. Please check http://gis.fra.dot.gov for the latest version of the dataset

Field Number	Attribute	Description	Data Type
0	FID	Internal feature number.	Long Integer representing an object identifier
1	Shape	Feature geometry.	Geometry
2	FRAARCID	Unique ID	Double Precision Floating Point
3	MILES	Length of segment in miles	Double Precision Floating Point
4	STATEAB	State railroad abbreviation which follows the Postal abbreviation	Character String
5	STCNTYFIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State and County Code	Character String
6	FRAREGION	FRA Regional Boundaries	Double Precision Floating Point
7	RROWNER1	The reporting mark of the 1st owning railroad. A mark of 'XXXX' indicates an abandoned link. Rule 260 codes are used where available. A mark of 'DUMX' indicates an added connecting link.	Character String
8	RROWNER2	The reporting mark of the 2nd owning railroad, if any.	Character String
9	RROWNER3	The reporting mark of the 3rd owning railroad, if any.	Character String
10	TRKRGHTS1	Reporting mark of the 1st railroad having trackage-rights.	Character String
11	TRKRGHTS2	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
12	TRKRGHTS3	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
13	TRKRGHTS4	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
14	TRKRGHTS5	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
15	TRKRGHTS6	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
16	TRKRGHTS7	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
17	TRKRGHTS8	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
18	TRKRGHTS9	Reporting marks of any additional railroads having trackage rights.	Character String
19	STRACNET	Type of military interest flag - this code should match the publication 'Civil Rail Lines Important to 'National Defense, September, 2003'	Character String
20	SIGSYS	Type of signaling system.	Character String
21	FRFRANODE	The FRA assigned node number at the topological start of the link	Double Precision Floating Point
22	TOFRANODE	The FRA assigned node number at the topological end of the link	Double Precision Floating Point
23	DEN05CODE	Density Category for the latest year available, 2005.	Double Precision Floating Point
24	NET	Indicates which operations is part of the network, spatially	Character String
25	PASSNGR	Passenger Railroad Operations	Character String
26	VERSION	The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.	Character String
27	STFIPS	State FIPS	Character String