---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 229.201"
title: "49"
number: "229.201"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/229.201"
---

# §229.201. Purpose and scope.

- (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.
- (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.

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 36912, June 28, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20133, 20137-38, 20143, 20168, 20701-03, 21301-02, 21304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 21109, Mar. 31, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 36912, June 28, 2006]