# Safety Glazing Standards
> **Federal Railroad Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2016-02-09 · Effective 2016-04-11 · 81 FR 6775
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-02524
- **Category:** railroad-safety
- **Sub-agency:** Federal Railroad Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 6775
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 223
- **Publication date:** 2016-02-09
- **Effective date:** 2016-04-11
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FRA-2012-0103, Notice No. 2
## Abstract

In this final rule, FRA is revising and clarifying existing regulations related to the use of glazing materials in the windows of locomotives, passenger cars, and cabooses. This final rule reduces paperwork and other economic burdens on the rail industry by removing a stenciling requirement for locomotives, passenger cars, and cabooses that are required to be equipped with glazing. This final rule also clarifies the application of the regulations to older equipment and to the end locations of all equipment to provide more certainty to the rail industry and more narrowly address FRA's safety concerns. In addition, this final rule clarifies the definition of passenger car, updates the rule by removing certain compliance dates that are no longer necessary, and, in response to comments on the proposed rule, modifies the application of the regulations to passenger cars and cabooses in a railroad's fleet that are used only for private transportation purposes and to older locomotives used in incidental freight service.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/02/09/2016-02524/safety-glazing-standards)
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