{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-229.201","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 229.201","heading":"Purpose and scope.","body":"(a) Purpose. The purpose of this subpart is to help protect locomotive cab occupants in the event that a locomotive collides with another locomotive or piece of on-track equipment, a shifted load on a freight car on an adjacent parallel track, or a highway vehicle at a highway-rail grade crossing.\n(b) This subpart prescribes minimum crashworthiness standards for locomotives. It also establishes the requirements for obtaining FRA approval of: new locomotive crashworthiness design standards; changes to FRA-approved locomotive crashworthiness design standards; and alternative locomotive crashworthiness designs.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER II—FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","PART 229—RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE SAFETY STANDARDS","Subpart D—Locomotive Crashworthiness Design Requirements"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"fe9f3002315def8815d7f8a282e8260782cf7b93492922a50af39bc55a970955","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-229.141","next":"us/49-cfr-229.203"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}