Your locomotives' inspections, boiler paperwork, waivers and shop work live in one record, and the FRA forms are filled in from it. Steam first, diesel too. The people who crew them get a free account of their own.
Try everything free for 14 days. After that it's $20 a month plus $5 for each active locomotive, and everyone on your roster gets a login.
Start the 14-day trial Card required. Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing.
Make a free account for yourself: your certifications with reminders before they lapse, a log of your shifts and trips, and the regulations to read and follow.
Create a free account Free for one person, no card, 13 or older. If your railroad joins later, it can add you, and the account stays yours.Each inspection, test and repair is logged once, by the person who did it. The due dates, the federal forms and the inspector's binder are worked out from those records.
Daily, 31-day, 92-day, annual and 1472 inspections for steam, counted in service days the way §230.18 counts them. Daily, periodic and annual tests for diesels, with out-of-use credit.
Enter the shell courses, staybolts, braces and rivet seams. RailCompliant works out the maximum allowable working pressure within the §230.24–230.27 limits, and the weakest part sets the boiler's pressure.
The 6180.49A annual report, the Form 4 boiler card and the Form 5 service day record are built from the year's records, not retyped. When an officer with sign-off authority certifies one, it's frozen and can't be quietly changed.
One page gathers a locomotive's standing, prior defects, 92 days of daily inspections with any gaps counted, periodic history, boiler documents and waivers, and checks the record history as it's made.
Keep every waiver and special approval with its docket number, the locomotives it covers and the day it runs out. Reminders go out 15, 12, 9, 6, 3 and 1 months before it expires.
The same records run the shop and answer who was qualified, how many volunteer hours went into a restoration, and what donors get to see.
Open work on any locomotive or car, log hours and parts, and watch the cost add up. A finished work order locks, and corrections stay in the record history. Parts and stores keep reorder points.
Members ask for parts, approvers sign off up to their limit, and the Cost Center shows a fiscal year's spending by category, vendor and locomotive.
Each car has a record page like a locomotive's: maintenance, runs with car-miles, photos and history, with its due dates on the calendar.
Plan a run or a weekend excursion with a projected cost, then close it out with what really happened: hours, fuel and water. Cancelled runs don't count as service days.
Runs, inspections due, car records, waiver dates, qualifications, work orders and work days on one month, and in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook.
Daily inspectors, qualified inspectors, engineers, conductors and first aid, with the training behind each one and the day it expires. Renewals keep their history. Printable wallet cards.
Shop hours are valued at the Independent Sector rate, or a documented market rate for skilled volunteers. A supervisor certifies the period, and funders get an entry-by-entry CSV.
Photos, total volunteer hours, a fundraising goal and a donate link. Never anyone's name, and never a compliance detail.
A free account is for one person. You don't need a railroad or a card. When a railroad that uses RailCompliant invites you to link to its roster, accept, and the hours and runs it records for you show on My Career, marked verified. Your account stays yours.
Certifications with reminders before they expire, your past service, and a log of your shifts and trips. Bring in an old logbook from Excel, Google Sheets or CSV.
Log the rides, visits, photo outings, events and volunteer days you've been on, with up to 100 photos. Location data is removed from every photo.
Parts 229 and 230 laid out like the CFR, with every cross-reference a link. Bookmark a section or a single paragraph, save searches, and leave yourself notes.
Follow Parts 229 and 230, and FRA safety advisories if you want them. Once a day RailCompliant checks eCFR and the Federal Register for changes, rules, proposed rules and waiver petitions, and sends at most one email.
New posts by email if you ask for them, and comments under your own name.
When you're ready, start a railroad from your account, with the usual 14-day trial.
RailCompliant changes most weeks, and every change goes live once it passes the tests. Here are the latest, newest first.
One plan for railroads, priced by the size of the active fleet. People are never billed.
| Railroads | Crew and railfans | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $20/mo + $5 per active locomotive | $0 always |
| For | A railroad, tourist line or museum | One person |
| Users | Unlimited | You |
| Trial | 14 days, card required | No card |
| Includes | Everything on this page |
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| Start the 14-day trial | Create a free account |
If yours isn't here, write to [email protected].
Part 230, records and inspections, written for the people who keep heritage locomotives running.
When a steam locomotive's 1472 inspection comes due under 49 CFR 230.17, what it must cover, the Form 3 and Form 4 filing, and what it means for your shop.
A service day is any calendar day the boiler has steam pressure above atmospheric pressure with fire in the firebox. Which Part 230 clocks count it, and why.
The records 49 CFR Part 230 requires for a steam locomotive: each FRA form, who signs it, where it is filed or posted, the deadline and how long to keep it.
Set it up in an afternoon and bring in what you already have.
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