Two-Way End-of-Train Telemetry Devices and Certain Passenger Train Operations
other · US Department of Transportation · Published 1998-05-01 · Effective 1998-05-01 · 63 FR 24130
Document
Document number
98-11408
Federal Register citation
63 FR 24130
CFR reference
49 CFR 232
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
other
Sub-agency
US Department of Transportation
Publication date
1998-05-01
Effective date
1998-05-01
DOT docket
FRA Docket No. PB-9, Notice No. 11
Abstract
FRA is revising the regulations regarding the use and design of two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way EOTs) to specifically address certain passenger train operations where multiple units of freight-type equipment, material handling cars, or express cars are part of a passenger train's consist. Trains of this nature are currently being operated by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), and these revisions are intended to clarify and address the applicability of the two-way EOT requirements to these types of operations.