---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 230.18"
title: "49"
number: "230.18"
heading: "Service days."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/230.18"
---

# §230.18. Service days.

- (a) **Service day record.** For every steam locomotive currently in service, the steam locomotive owner and/or operator shall have available, and be able to show an FRA inspector upon request, a current copy of the service day record that contains the number of service days the steam locomotive has accrued since the last 31, 92, Annual and 1472 service day inspections.
- (b) **Service day report.** By the 31st of every January, every steam locomotive owner and/or operator shall file a service day report, FRA Form No. 5, with the FRA Motive Power and Equipment Division Staff Director accounting for the days the steam locomotive was in service from January 1 through December 31st of the preceding year. If the steam locomotive was in service zero (0) days during that period, a report must still be filed to prevent the steam locomotive from being considered retired by FRA. (See appendix B of this part.)
- (c) **Retirement where no service day reports filed.** Where the steam locomotive owner and/or operator does not file the required service day report for a steam locomotive, that steam locomotive may be considered retired by FRA. The steam locomotive owner and/or operator must complete all 1472 service day inspection items to return a retired steam locomotive to service.

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 62865, Nov. 17, 1999, as amended at 90 FR 28168, July 1, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20702; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 62865, Nov. 17, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 62865, Nov. 17, 1999, as amended at 90 FR 28168, July 1, 2025]