DATABASE NAME

     TOFC: Major Rail/Truck Intermodal Terminal Facilities

DATABASE DESCRIPTION

     Major rail/truck intermodal facilities in the United States
     including trailer on flat-car facilities.

ORIGINATING AGENCY

     Federal Railroad Administration

AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING DATA

     Bureau of Transportation Statistics

CONTACT

     National Transportation Atlas Databases
     Bureau of Transportation Statistics
     U.S. Department of Transportation
     Washington, DC  20590
     (202) 366-DATA
     Internet:  info@bts.gov

SOURCE

     Data were merged from two sources:

     "Official Railway Guide" for terminal identification

     1:2,000,000 USGS Digital Line Graphs for location and rail
     feature attributes.

ACCURACY

     1,200 m (0.75 mi) root-mean square positional accuracy

TYPE OF GIS DATABASE

     Point database with nodes

FILES/SIZE/NUMBER OF RECORDS

     One ASCII file

     1)   tofc.pnt  node file contains point locations and
                    attributes

     Approximate size of file:     28,000 bytes
     Approximate number of nodes:  300

FILE STRUCTURE

     The file is ASCII-comma delimited.  Character fields are
     enclosed in quotation marks.

     The Node File

   FIELD  ITEM                TYPE      REMARKS

     1    Node ID             Num       Unique identification
                                        number
     2    Longitude           Float     Longitude of terminal in
                                        decimal degrees (explicit
                                        decimal)
     3    Latitude            Float     Latitude of terminal in
                                        decimal degrees (explicit
                                        decimal)
     4    City                Char      City name
     5    State               Char      State postal abbreviation
     6    SPLC                Char      SPLC code of facility
     7    Private             Char      Terminal privately owned
                                        Y    Yes
     8    Public              Char      Terminal publicly owned
                                        Y    Yes
     9    Owner               Char      Reporting mark of owner
     10   User 1              Char      |>
     11   User 2              Char      | Reporting marks of 
     12   User 3              Char      | railroads sharing 
     13   User 4              Char      |>         facility
     14   Coal                Char      Terminal handles coal
                                        Y    Yes
     15   Lumber              Char      Terminal handles lumber
                                        Y    Yes
     16   Bulk                Char      Terminal handles bulk
                                        Y    Yes
     17   TOFC                Char      Trailer on flat car
                                        capability
                                        Y    Yes
     18   COFC                Char      Container on flat car
                                        capability
                                        Y    Yes
     19   Grain               Char      Terminal handles grain
                                        Y    Yes
     20   Port                Char      Terminal has water access
                                        Y    Yes
     21   Auto                Char      Terminal has automobile
                                        access
                                        Y    Yes
     22   Node                Num       Node number in RAIL_2M
                                        network
     23   IN_USE              Char      Terminal is currently in
                                        use
                                        Y    Yes

DISCUSSION

     No additional discussion.
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