This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Locomotive Information Transaction Set (436) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used to provide the rail carriers with locomotive status and location information.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To provide locomotive information between rail carriers
To identify the equipment
To transmit a fixed-format record or matrix contents
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
