Every FRA compliance product was built for freight. RailCompliant was built for the railroads that keep history running — steam-era Part 230 recordkeeping, boiler paperwork, waivers, volunteer crews, and grant reporting, on top of a real maintenance shop. No spreadsheets, no binders, no missed due dates.
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Every inspection, test, alteration, and repair is a recorded event. The 6180.49A annual report, Form 4 boiler record, and Form 5 service day record are generated from those events — not retyped — and certification freezes an immutable, hash-chained snapshot you can hand an FRA inspector.
The annual locomotive inspection report assembles itself from the year's events and the locomotive's Part-229 identity. When an officer with certify authority signs off, the snapshot is locked and audit-chained — tamper-evident by construction.
Steam is where paper systems break down — and where nothing else on the market even tries. RailCompliant carries the whole Part 230 stack: service-day intervals, boiler engineering, and the FRA filing calendar.
Enter shell courses, staybolts, braces, and rivet seams; RailCompliant runs the §230.24–.27 calculations — factor of safety ≥ 4, staybolts capped at 7,500 psi, braces at 9,000 psi — and the lowest component governs the boiler. Certification requires dual owner and operator signatures, and the hydro (1.25× MAWP) and safety-valve limits fall out automatically.
An inspector wants the posture, the prior defects, the daily reports, the boiler documents, and the filings — in that order. RailCompliant assembles the whole packet on demand and stands behind it with a verified hash chain.
One page gathers compliance posture, prior-defect readiness, 92 days of daily inspections with gaps counted — not hidden — periodic history with filing status, boiler documents, waivers, and an integrity appendix that re-verifies the audit chain at generation time.
FRA publishes waiver-expiration tracking only for Class I railroads and Amtrak. Heritage railroads run on 1472-day extensions and special approvals too — so RailCompliant keeps the registry, links each waiver to the locomotives it covers, and starts renewal reminders a full year out, because an extension petition takes a 60-day comment period plus up to a 9-month Railroad Safety Board decision.
Form 4 boiler spec, the interval schedule, maintenance history, waivers, and the 6180.49A live on the locomotive. The engine tracks the full Part 230 superset — daily, 31-day, 92-day, annual, 1472-day, staybolt caps, brake valves — plus Part 229 calendar and out-of-use credit, and opens work before a due date passes.
Heritage railroads and railway museums run on grants and donations. RailCompliant turns logged shop labor into the documentation funders ask for — and into public restoration pages donors can follow.
Hours logged on work orders and inspections are valued at the Independent Sector rate ($36.14/hr for 2026), with documented market-rate overrides for skilled volunteers — your certified welder counts at a welder's rate under 2 CFR 200.306(b). A supervisor certifies the period, and the snapshot freezes into the audit chain with a CSV of the entry-level detail funders can verify.
Publish a public page for any locomotive — real volunteer hours aggregated from the shop floor, photos, a campaign thermometer, and a donate button. The maintenance data you already keep becomes the fundraising story, with hard privacy rules: aggregate hours only, never names, never compliance detail.
Track daily-inspector designations, competent 31/92-day inspectors, brake inspectors, engineers, and first-aid cards with the training or OJT evidence behind each one. Renewals keep history — "was this person designated when they signed?" always has an answer — and expirations surface in the daily digest before they lapse.
Compliance is the reason you sign up; the shop is why you stay. Work orders roll up labor and parts into cost, and completing one produces the compliance record — so the paperwork is a byproduct of doing the work, not a second job.
Open work against any locomotive or piece of rolling stock, log volunteer hours and parts, and watch cost roll up from work order to locomotive to railroad. Inventory decrements as you consume it — no separate stockbook.
Records reference the exact CFR section, with a live link to official eCFR — you're never guessing which rule applies.
Every create, amend, and approval is hash-chained. A certified record can't be quietly changed — a real audit trail, not a log file.
Unlimited users at no extra cost. Add every crew member who touches a locomotive; you're billed per locomotive, not per person.
A small railroad pays like a small railroad. Start free for 14 days — see the full breakdown on the pricing page.
| Fleet | Per month |
|---|---|
| 3 locomotives | $94 |
| 6 locomotives | $139 |
| 12 locomotives | $229 |
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