LFI Beginning Segment for Locomotive Information

To provide locomotive information between rail carriers

Position: LFI-01 · Element: 154 · Name: Standard Point Location Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 6 · Max: 9 · Repeat: 1

Code (Standard Point Location) defined by National Motor Freight Tariff Association (NMFTA) or the National Transportation Agency of Canada (NTA) point development group as the official code assigned to a city or point (for ratemaking purposes) within a city

Position: LFI-02 · Element: 373 · Name: Date · Type: Date (DT) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 8 · Max: 8 · Repeat: 1

Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the calendar year

LFI02 and LFI03 are the equipment status date and time.

Position: LFI-03 · Element: 337 · Name: Time · Type: Time (TM) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 4 · Max: 8 · Repeat: 1

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)

Position: LFI-04 · Element: 578 · Name: Equipment Status Code · Type: Identifier (ID) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 2 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating status of equipment

Position: LFI-05 · Element: 1271 · Name: Industry Code · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Mandatory · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list

LFI05 through LFI07 are the Locomotive Information Codes (see Code Source 461).

Position: LFI-06 · Element: 1271 · Name: Industry Code · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list

Position: LFI-07 · Element: 1271 · Name: Industry Code · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 30 · Repeat: 1

Code indicating a code from a specific industry code list

Position: LFI-08 · Element: 41 · Name: Interchange Train Identification · Type: String (AN) · Requirement: Optional · Min: 1 · Max: 10 · Repeat: 1

Train identification (free-form)