LFI Beginning Segment for Locomotive Information
To provide locomotive information between rail carriers
Position
Element
Name
Type
Requirement
Min
Max
Repeat
Code (Standard Point Location) defined by NMFTA point development group as the official code assigned to a city or point (for ratemaking purposes) within a city
Date expressed as CCYYMMDD
LFI02 and LFI03 are the equipment status date and time.
Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS, or HHMMSSD, or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes (00-59), S = integer seconds (00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal seconds are expressed as follows: D = tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths (00-99)
Code indicating status of equipment
Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list
LFI05 through LFI07 are the Locomotive Information Codes (see Code Source 461).
Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list
Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list
Train identification (free-form)