Summary
Rail Crossings is a spatial file maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for use by
States and railroads.
Description
FRA Grade Crossings is a spatial file that originates from the National Highway-Rail Crossing, Inventory Program. The program is to provide information to Federal, State, and local governments, as well as the railroad industry for the improvements of safety at highway-rail crossing.
Credits
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Use limitations
There are no access and use limitations for this item.
Extent
West -79.491008 East -75.178954
North 39.733500 South 38.051719
Scale Range
Maximum (zoomed in) 1:5,000
Minimum (zoomed out) 1:150,000,000
ArcGIS Metadata ▼►Topics and Keywords ▼►Themes or categories of the resource transportation
* Content type Downloadable Data
Export to FGDC CSDGM XML format as Resource Description No
Temporal keywords 2013
Theme keywords Rail
Theme keywords Grade Crossing
Theme keywords Rail Crossings
Citation ▼►Title rr_crossings
Creation date 2013-03-15 00:00:00
Presentation formats * digital map
Citation Contacts ▼►Responsible party
Individual's name Raquel Hunt
Organization's name Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Contact's position GIS Program Manager
Contact's role custodian
Responsible party
Organization's name Research and Innovative Technology Administration/Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Individual's name National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) 2013
Contact's position Geospatial Information Systems
Contact's role distributor
Contact information ▼►Phone
Voice 202-366-DATA
Address
Type
Delivery point 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City Washington
Administrative area DC
Postal code 20590
e-mail address answers@BTS.gov
Resource Details ▼►Dataset languages * English (UNITED STATES)
Dataset character set utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format
Spatial representation type * vector
* Processing environment Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7600) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
Credits
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
ArcGIS item properties
* Name USDOT_RRCROSSINGS_MD
* Size 0.047
Location withheld
* Access protocol Local Area Network
Extents ▼►Extent
Geographic extent
Bounding rectangle
Extent type Extent used for searching
* West longitude -79.491008
* East longitude -75.178954
* North latitude 39.733500
* South latitude 38.051719
* Extent contains the resource Yes
Extent in the item's coordinate system
* West longitude 611522.170675
* East longitude 1824600.445629
* South latitude 149575.449134
* North latitude 752756.624659
* Extent contains the resource Yes
Resource Points of Contact ▼►Point of contact
Individual's name Raquel Hunt
Organization's name Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Contact's position GIS Program Manager
Contact's role custodian
Resource Maintenance ▼►Resource maintenance
Update frequency annually
Resource Constraints ▼►Constraints
Limitations of use
There are no access and use limitations for this item.
Spatial Reference ▼►ArcGIS coordinate system
* Type Projected
* Geographic coordinate reference GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
* Projection NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Maryland_FIPS_1900_Feet
* Coordinate reference details
Projected coordinate system
Well-known identifier 2893
X origin -120561100
Y origin -95444400
XY scale 36953082.294548117
Z origin -100000
Z scale 10000
M origin -100000
M scale 10000
XY tolerance 0.0032808333333333331
Z tolerance 0.001
M tolerance 0.001
High precision true
Latest well-known identifier 2893
Well-known text PROJCS["NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Maryland_FIPS_1900_Feet",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983_HARN",DATUM["D_North_American_1983_HARN",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree"
