# Modernizing Dispatcher's Record of Train Movements
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule. · Published 2025-07-01 · Effective 2025-07-31 · 90 FR 28160
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-12183
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 28160
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 228
- **Publication date:** 2025-07-01
- **Effective date:** 2025-07-31
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FRA-2025-0125
## Abstract

This final rule modernizes requirements related to a dispatcher's record of train movements. Specifically, it will eliminate the reference to the telegraph and the need for rail carriers to record weather conditions at 6-hour intervals, as outdated and redundant, respectively.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/01/2025-12183/modernizing-dispatchers-record-of-train-movements)
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