﻿<metadata>
  <idinfo>
    <citation>
      <citeinfo>
        <title>rail_nodes</title>
        <geoform>vector digital data</geoform>
        <onlink>http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/</onlink>
      </citeinfo>
    </citation>
    <descript>
      <abstract>The Rail Network is a comprehensive database of the nation's railway system at the 1:100,000 scale or better. The data set covers all 50 States plus the District of Columbia.</abstract>
      <purpose>The data set provides location and partial attribute information for use in national and regional network analysis applications.</purpose>
      <supplinf>At the time of publishing the DVD significant updates to the layer were underway.</supplinf>
    </descript>
    <status>
      <update>Continually</update>
    </status>
    <spdom>
      <bounding>
        <westbc>-158.152193</westbc>
        <eastbc>-66.983911</eastbc>
        <northbc>64.924082</northbc>
        <southbc>20.880179</southbc>
      </bounding>
    </spdom>
    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>None</themekt>
        <themekey>Railways</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>None</themekt>
        <themekey>Network</themekey>
      </theme>
      <theme>
        <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</themekt>
        <themekey>transportation</themekey>
      </theme>
      <place>
        <placekt>None</placekt>
        <placekey>USA</placekey>
      </place>
      <place>
        <placekt>None</placekt>
        <placekey>United States</placekey>
      </place>
      <temporal>
        <tempkt>None</tempkt>
        <tempkey>2013</tempkey>
      </temporal>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>None</accconst>
    <useconst>None</useconst>
    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)</cntorg>
          <cntper>Raquel Hunt</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntpos>GIS Program Manager</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>1200 New Jersey Ave SE</address>
          <city>Washington</city>
          <state>DC</state>
          <postal>20590</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>202.493.6415</cntvoice>
      </cntinfo>
    </ptcontac>
    <datacred>Acknowledgment of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)</datacred>
    <native>Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.0.3035</native>
  </idinfo>
  <dataqual>
    <lineage>
      <srcinfo>
        <typesrc>hardcopy</typesrc>
        <srccontr>The Official Railway Guide</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <typesrc>onLine</typesrc>
        <srccontr>State DOTs</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <typesrc>onLine</typesrc>
        <srccontr>Rail Companies</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
      <srcinfo>
        <typesrc>dvdRom</typesrc>
        <srccontr>FRA's Automated Geometry Locations</srccontr>
      </srcinfo>
    </lineage>
  </dataqual>
  <spdoinfo>
    <direct>Vector</direct>
    <ptvctinf>
      <sdtsterm>
        <sdtstype>Entity point</sdtstype>
        <ptvctcnt>135769</ptvctcnt>
      </sdtsterm>
    </ptvctinf>
  </spdoinfo>
  <spref>
    <horizsys>
      <geograph>
        <latres>8.983152841195215e-009</latres>
        <longres>8.983152841195215e-009</longres>
        <geogunit>Decimal Degrees</geogunit>
      </geograph>
      <geodetic>
        <horizdn>D WGS 1984</horizdn>
        <ellips>WGS 1984</ellips>
        <semiaxis>6378137.0</semiaxis>
        <denflat>298.257223563</denflat>
      </geodetic>
    </horizsys>
  </spref>
  <eainfo>
    <detailed>
      <enttyp>
        <enttypl>rail_nodes</enttypl>
      </enttyp>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>FID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Internal feature number.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>ESRI</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>Shape</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Feature geometry.</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>ESRI</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <udom>Coordinates defining the features.</udom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>FRANODEID</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Unique Node ID</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>FRA</attrdefs>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>STATEAB</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>State railroad abbreviation which follows the Postal abbreviation</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>USPS</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <codesetd>
            <codesetn>Official List of U.S. Postal Code Abbreviations</codesetn>
            <codesets>U.S. Postal Service (USPS)</codesets>
          </codesetd>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>STATEFIPS</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State Code</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>National Institute of Standards and Technology</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <codesetd>
            <codesetn>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)</codesetn>
            <codesets>National Institute of Standards and Technology</codesets>
          </codesetd>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>CNTYFIPS</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) County Code</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>National Institute of Standards and Technology</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <codesetd>
            <codesetn>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)</codesetn>
            <codesets>National Institute of Standards and Technology</codesets>
          </codesetd>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>STCNTYFIPS</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State &amp; County Code</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>National Institute of Standards and Technology</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <codesetd>
            <codesetn>Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)</codesetn>
            <codesets>National Institute of Standards and Technology</codesets>
          </codesetd>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
      <attr>
        <attrlabl>FRAREGION</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>FRA Regional Boundaries</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)</attrdefs>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>1</edomv>
            <edomvd>CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VT</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>2</edomv>
            <edomvd>DC, DE, MD, OH, PA, VA, WV</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>3</edomv>
            <edomvd>AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>4</edomv>
            <edomvd>IL, IN, MI, MN, WI</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>5</edomv>
            <edomvd>AR, LA, NM, OK, TX</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>6</edomv>
            <edomvd>CO, IA, KS, MO, NE</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>7</edomv>
            <edomvd>AZ, CA, HI, NV, UT</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
        <attrdomv>
          <edom>
            <edomv>8</edomv>
            <edomvd>AK, ID, MT, ND, OR, SD, WA, WY</edomvd>
            <edomvds>FRA</edomvds>
          </edom>
        </attrdomv>
      </attr>
    </detailed>
    <overview>
      <eaover>National Rail Network</eaover>
      <eadetcit>Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)</eadetcit>
    </overview>
  </eainfo>
  <distinfo>
    <distrib>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)</cntorg>
          <cntper>Office of Geospatial Information Systems</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
          <address>1200 New Jersey Ave. SE</address>
          <city>Washington</city>
          <state>DC</state>
          <postal>20590</postal>
          <country>US</country>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>202-366-DATA</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>answers@bts.gov</cntemail>
      </cntinfo>
    </distrib>
    <resdesc>National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2013</resdesc>
    <distliab>See access and use constraints information.</distliab>
    <stdorder>
      <digform>
        <digtinfo>
          <formname>ESRI Shapefile</formname>
          <formvern>2013</formvern>
          <filedec>no compression applied</filedec>
          <transize>6.645</transize>
        </digtinfo>
        <digtopt>
          <offoptn>
            <offmedia>dvd</offmedia>
            <reccap>
              <recden>650</recden>
              <recdenu>megabytes</recdenu>
            </reccap>
            <recfmt>ISO 9660</recfmt>
          </offoptn>
        </digtopt>
      </digform>
      <fees>None</fees>
      <ordering>Call (202-366-DATA), or E-mail (answers@bts.gov) RITA/BTS to request the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2013 DVD. The NTAD DVD can be ordered from the online bookstore at www.bts.gov. Individual datasets from the NTAD can also be downloaded from the Office of Geospatial Information Systems website at http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/</ordering>
    </stdorder>
  </distinfo>
  <metainfo>
    <metd>20130429</metd>
    <metstdn>FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
    <metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
    <mettc>local time</mettc>
  </metainfo>
</metadata>