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
FRANODEID
Unique Node ID
Double Precision Floating Point
3
STATEAB
State railroad abbreviation which follows the Postal abbreviation
Character String
4
STCNTYFIPS
Attribute_Definition:
Character String
5
FRAREGION
FRA Regional Boundaries
Double Precision Floating Point
6
BORDER
Indicates if the node is located on a polygon boundary
Character String
7
ONMAINNET
Indicates of the node is located on the main sub network
Double Precision Floating Point
8
NAME
The station name, which was appended from the 2M network
Character String
9
VERSION
The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.
