---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 10742"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "10742"
heading: "Facilities for interchange of traffic"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/10742"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part A — Rail"
  - "Chapter 107 — Rates"
  - "Subchapter III — Limitations"
---

# §10742. Facilities for interchange of traffic


A [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to the jurisdiction of the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) under this part shall provide reasonable, proper, and equal facilities that are within its power to provide for the interchange of traffic between, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from, its respective line and a connecting line of another [rail carrier](/usc/49/10102.md?p=5) or of a [water carrier](/usc/49/13102.md?p=26) providing [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) subject to chapter 137.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 819.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 10742, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1391, related to facilities for interchange of traffic, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See sections 10742 and 15506 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.