49 CFR Part 1250

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Description

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Mining machinery and equipment, except oil
field machinery and equipment.
Oil field machinery and equipment.
Industrial trucks, tractors, trailers, and stackers.
Metalworking Machinery and Equipment.
Special Industry Machinery, Except Metalworking Machinery.
General Industrial Machinery and Equipment.
Office, Computing, and Accounting Machines.
Service Industry Machines.
Miscellaneous Machinery and Parts, Except
Electrical.
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES.
Electrical Transmission and Distribution Equipment.
Electrical Industrial Apparatus.
Household Appliances.
Household cooking equipment, all types.
Household refrigerators and home and farm
freezers.
Household laundry equipment.
Electric Lighting and Wiring Equipment.
Radio and TV Receiving Sets, Except Communication Types.
Communication Equipment.
Electronic Components and Accessories.
Miscellaneous Electrical Machinery, Equipment,
and Supplies.
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT.
Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Equipment.
Motor vehicles.
Passenger cars, assembled.
Truck tractors, and trucks, assembled.
Motor coaches, assembled (including trolley
busses) and fire department vehicles.
Passenger car bodies and body parts.
Truck and bus bodies and body parts.
Motor vehicle parts and accessories.
Truck trailers.
Aircraft and Parts.
Ships and Boats.
Railroad Equipment.
Motorcycles, Bicycles, and Parts.
Miscellaneous Transportation Equipment.
INSTRUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OPTICAL GOODS,
WATCHES AND CLOCKS.
Engineering, Laboratory, and Scientific Instruments.
Measuring, Controlling, and Indicating Instruments.
Optical Instruments and Lenses.
Surgical, Medical, and Dental Instruments and
Supplies.
Ophthalmic or Opticians’ Goods.
Photographic Equipment and Supplies.
Watches, Clocks, Clockwork Operated Devices,
and Parts.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTS OF MANUFACTURING.
Jewelry, Silverware, and Plated Ware.
Musical Instruments and Parts.
Toys, Amusement, Sporting and Athletic Goods.
Sporting and athletic goods.
Pens, Pencils, and Other Office and Artists’ Materials.
Costume Jewelry, Novelties, Buttons, and Notions.
Miscellaneous Manufactured Products—A.
Miscellaneous Manufactured Products—B.
WASTE AND SCRAP MATERIALS.
Ashes.
Waste and Scrap, Except Ashes.
Metal scrap, waste and tailings.
Iron and steel scrap, wastes and tailings.

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Textile waste, scrap and sweepings.
Paper waste and scrap.
Rubber and plastic scrap and waste.
MISC. FREIGHT SHIPMENTS.
Misc. Freight Shipments.
Outfits or kits.
Articles, used except for repair, reconditioning (41115), returned empty (421), remelting
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Articles, used, returned for repair, incl. for
reconditioning.
Miscellaneous Commodities Not Taken in
Regular Freight Service.
CONTAINERS, SHIPPING, RETURNED EMPTY.
Containers, Shipping, Returned Empty Inc. Carriers or Devices.
Trailers, Semi-Trailers, Returned Empty.
FREIGHT FORWARDER TRAFFIC.
Freight Forwarder Traffic, Carload or Truckload.
SHIPPER ASSOCIATION OR SIMILAR TRAFFIC.
Shipper Association or Similar Traffic, Carload
or Truckload.
MISCELLANEOUS MIXED SHIPMENTS EXC. FORWARDER SEE 44 SHIPPER ASSOCIATION SEE 45.
All Freight Rate Shipments, N.E.C., Inc. TOFC.
Mixed Shipments on One Factor Rates Cnstg.
of Commodities Representing Two or More
Major Industry Groups Where it is Impossible to
Determine the Predominant Industry.
SMALL PACKAGED FREIGHT SHIPMENTS.
Small Packaged Freight Shipments, Including
LCL or LTL.

[32 FR 20466, Dec. 20, 1967. Redesignated at 46
FR 9116, Jan. 28, 1981, and 46 FR 10745, Feb. 4,
1981]

PART 1250—RAILROAD
PERFORMANCE DATA REPORTING
Sec.
1250.1 General.
1250.2 Railroad performance data elements.
1250.3 Chicago terminal reporting.
1250.4 Rail infrastructure projects reporting.
AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 1321 and 11145.
SOURCE: 81 FR 87484, Dec. 5, 2016, unless
otherwise noted.

§ 1250.1

General.

(a) The reporting period covers:
(1) For § 1250.2(a)(1)–(9), 12:01 a.m. Saturday–11:59 p.m. Friday;
(2) For § 1250.2(a)(10), the previous calendar month;
(3) For § 1250.2(a)(11), 12:01 a.m. Sunday–11:59 p.m. Saturday;
(4) For § 1250.3(a)(1)–(2), 12:01 a.m. Saturday–11:59 p.m. Friday.
(b) The data required under § 1250.2
and § 1250.3(a) must be reported to the
Board via the method and in the form

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prescribed by the Board’s Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs,
and Compliance (OPAGAC) by 5 p.m.
Eastern Time on Wednesday of each
week. In the event that a particular
Wednesday is a Federal holiday or falls
on a day when STB offices are closed
for any other reason, then the data
should be reported on the next business
day when the offices are open.
(c) Each reporting railroad shall provide an explanation of its methodology
for deriving the data with its initial filing and an update if and when that
methodology changes. This explanation
should include the unit train definition
that the railroad will use in its data reporting, which shall reflect its assignment of train codes in accordance with
its normal business practices. If and
when a railroad changes its definition
of unit train it shall notify the Board
of the change at the time it goes into
effect in the form prescribed by
OPAGAC.
(d) Unless otherwise provided, the
performance data, Chicago data and
alert levels, narrative infrastructure
reporting, and any methodologies or
explanations of data collection reported to the Board under this part
will be publicly available and posted on
the Board’s Web site.
§ 1250.2 Railroad performance data
elements.
(a) Each Class I railroad must report
the performance data elements in paragraphs (a)(1)–(9) and (11) of this section
on a weekly basis, and the data elements in paragraph (a)(10) on a monthly basis, for the reporting period, as defined in § 1250.1(a). However, with regard to data elements in paragraph
(a)(7) and (8), Kansas City Southern
Railway Company is not required to report information by state, but instead
shall report system-wide data.
(1) System-average train speed for
the overall system and for the following train types for the reporting
week. (Train speed should be measured
for line-haul movements between terminals. The average speed for each
train type should be calculated by dividing total train-miles by total hours
operated.)
(i) Intermodal.
(ii) Grain unit.

(iii) Coal unit.
(iv) Automotive unit.
(v) Crude oil unit.
(vi) Ethanol unit.
(vii) Manifest.
(viii) System.
(2) Weekly average terminal dwell
time, measured in hours, excluding
cars on run-through trains (i.e., cars
that arrive at, and depart from, a terminal on the same through train), for
the carrier’s system and its 10 largest
terminals in terms of railcars processed. (Terminal dwell is the average
time a car resides at a specified terminal location expressed in hours.)
(3) Weekly average cars on line by
the following car types for the reporting week. (Each railroad shall average
its daily on-line inventory of freight
cars. Articulated cars should be counted as a single unit. Cars on private
tracks (e.g., at a customer’s facility)
should be counted on the last railroad
on which they were located. Maintenance-of-way cars and other cars in
railroad service are to be excluded.)
(i) Box.
(ii) Covered hopper.
(iii) Gondola.
(iv) Intermodal.
(v) Multilevel (Automotive).
(vi) Open hopper.
(vii) Tank.
(viii) Other.
(ix) Total.
(4) Weekly average dwell time at origin for the following train types: Grain
unit, coal unit, automotive unit, crude
oil unit, ethanol unit, and all other
unit trains. (For the purposes of this
data element, dwell time refers to the
time period from release of a unit train
at origin until actual movement by the
receiving carrier.)
(5) The weekly average number of
trains holding per day sorted by train
type (intermodal, grain unit, coal unit,
automotive unit, crude oil unit, ethanol unit, other unit, and manifest)
and by cause (crew, locomotive power,
or other). (Railroads are instructed to
run a same-time snapshot of trains
holding each day, and then to calculate
the average for the reporting period.)
(6) The weekly average of loaded and
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§ 1250.3

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or more sorted by service type (intermodal, grain, coal, crude oil, automotive, ethanol, fertilizer (the following Standard Transportation Commodity Codes (STCCs): 2871236, 2871235,
2871238, 2819454, 2812534, 2818426, 2819815,
2818170, 2871315, 2818142, 2818146, 2871244,
2819173, 2871313, and 2871451), and all
other). In order to derive the averages
for the reporting period, carriers
should run a same-time snapshot each
day of the reporting period, capturing
cars that have not moved in 48 hours or
more. The number of cars captured on
the daily snapshot for each category
should be added, and then divided by
the number of days in the reporting period. In deriving this data, carriers
should include cars in normal service
anywhere on their system, but should
not include cars placed at a customer
facility; in constructive placement;
placed for interchange to another carrier; in bad order status; in storage; or
operating in railroad service (e.g., ballast).
(7) The weekly total number of grain
cars loaded and billed, reported by
state, aggregated for the following
STCCs: 01131 (barley), 01132 (corn), 01133
(oats), 01135 (rye), 01136 (sorghum
grains), 01137 (wheat), 01139 (grain, not
elsewhere classified), 01144 (soybeans),
01341 (beans, dry), 01342 (peas, dry), and
01343 (cowpeas, lentils, or lupines).
‘‘Total grain cars loaded and billed’’ includes cars in shuttle service; dedicated train service; reservation, lottery, open and other ordering systems;
and private cars. Additionally, separately report the total cars loaded and
billed in shuttle service (or dedicated
train service), if any, versus total cars
loaded and billed in all other ordering
systems, including private cars.
(8) For the aggregated STCCs listed
in § 1250.2(a)(7), for railroad-owned or
leased cars that will move in manifest
service, each railroad shall report by
state the following:
(i) Running total of orders placed;
(ii) The running total of orders filled;
(iii) For orders which have not been
filled, the number of orders that are 1–
10 days past due and 11+ days past due,
as measured from when the car was due
for placement under the railroad’s governing tariff.

(9) Weekly average coal unit train
loadings or carloadings versus planned
loadings for the reporting week by coal
production region. Railroads have the
option to report unit train loadings or
carloadings, but should be consistent
week over week.
(10) For Class I carriers operating a
grain shuttle program, the average
grain shuttle turns per month, for the
total system and by region, versus
planned turns per month, for the total
system and by region. This data shall
be included in the first weekly report
of each month, covering the previous
calendar month.
(11) Weekly carloads originated and
carloads received in interchange by 23
commodity categories, separated into
two subgroups:
(i) Twenty-two historical commodity
categories.
(A) Chemicals.
(B) Coal.
(C) Coke.
(D) Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel.
(E) Farm Products except Grain.
(F) Food and Kindred Products.
(G) Grain Mill Products.
(H) Grain.
(I) Iron and Steel Scrap.
(J) Lumber and Wood Products.
(K) Metallic Ores.
(L) Metals.
(M) Motor Vehicles and Equipment.
(N) Non Metallic Minerals.
(O) Petroleum Products.
(P) Primary Forest Products.
(Q) Pulp, Paper and Allied Products.
(R) Stone, Clay and Glass Products.
(S) Waste and Scrap Materials.
(T) All Other.
(U) Containers.
(V) Trailers.
(ii) Fertilizer commodity category.
(A) Fertilizer (for STCCs defined in
paragraph (a)(6) of this section).
(B) [Reserved]
(b) [Reserved]
[81 FR 87484, Dec. 5, 2016, as amended at 82
FR 13402, Mar. 13, 2017]

§ 1250.3

Chicago terminal reporting.

(a) Each Class I railroad operating at
the Chicago gateway must jointly report the following performance data on
a weekly basis for the reporting period,

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Surface Transportation Board

§ 1253.10

as defined in § 1250.1(a). The reports required under this section may be submitted by the Association of American
Railroads (AAR).
(1) Average daily car volume in the
following Chicago area yards: Barr,
Bensenville, Blue Island, Calumet, Cicero, Clearing, Corwith, Gibson, Kirk,
Markham, and Proviso for the reporting week; and
(2) Average daily number of trains
held for delivery to Chicago sorted by
receiving carrier for the reporting
week. The average daily number should
be derived by taking a same time snapshot each day of the reporting week,
capturing the trains held for each railroad at that time, and then adding
those snapshots together and dividing
by the days in the reporting week.
(i) For purposes of this request, ‘‘held
for delivery’’ refers to a train staged by
the delivering railroad short of its
scheduled arrival at the Chicago gateway at the request of the receiving
railroad, and that has missed its scheduled window for arrival.
(ii) If Chicago terminal yards not
identified in § 1250.2(b)(1) are included
in the Chicago Transportation Coordination Office’s (CTCO) assessment of
the fluidity of the gateway for purposes
of implementing service contingency
measures, then the data requested in
§ 1250.2(b)(1) shall also be reported for
those yards.
(b) The Class I railroad members of
the CTCO (or one Class I railroad member of the CTCO designated to file on
behalf of all Class I railroad members,
or AAR) must:
(1) File a written notice with the
Board when the CTCO changes its operating Alert Level status, within one
business day of that change in status.
(2) If the CTCO revises its protocol of
service contingency measures, file with
the Board a detailed explanation of the
new protocol, including both triggers
and countermeasures, within seven
days of its adoption.
(c) Reports under paragraph (b) of
this section shall be reported to the Director of the Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs and Compliance (OPAGAC) via the method and
in the form prescribed by OPAGAC.

§ 1250.4 Rail infrastructure projects
reporting.
(a) Class I railroads shall submit annually a narrative report of significant
rail infrastructure projects that will be
commenced during the current calendar year, and a six-month update on
those projects. The reports should
briefly describe each project, its purpose, location (state/counties), and projected date of completion.
(b) A ‘‘significant rail infrastructure
project’’ is defined as a project with anticipated expenditures of $75 million or
more over the life of the project.
(c) The narrative report should be
submitted no later than March 1 of
each calendar year and the update no
later than September 1 of each calendar year via email to the Board’s Office of Public Assistance, Governmental
Affairs
and
Compliance
(OPAGAC) via the method and in the
form prescribed by OPAGAC. In the
event that March 1 or September 1 is a
Federal holiday, weekend, or falls on a
day when STB offices are closed for
any other reason, then the data should
be reported on the next business day
when the offices are open.

PARTS 1251–1252 [RESERVED]
PART 1253—RATE-MAKING ORGANIZATION; RECORDS AND REPORTS
Sec.
1253.10
1253.20
1253.30

Accounts.
Other records.
Retention of records.

AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 1321, 10706, 13703,
11144, and 11145.
NOTE: The report forms prescribed by part
1253 are available upon request from the Office of Economics, Surface Transportation
Board, Washington, DC.

§ 1253.10 Accounts.
Accounts shall be kept by each conference, bureau, committee, or other
organization subject to sections 5a or
5b to record all receipts and expenditures of moneys. Such accounts shall
be kept with sufficient particularity to
show the facts pertaining to all transactions reflected in the entries made in
the accounts. All receipts shall be supported by records, including records

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