This notification provides a brief summary of each AAR Circular Letter issued during the prior month. TrinityRail monitors these Circular Letters as they relate to or may impact TrinityRail’s fleet, its customers, its shop network and its manufacturing operations. Please click on the hyperlinks below to access the full circular. The circular number is hyperlinked to the TrinityRail QA Portal. Members of the portal will be able to open the Circular Letters and any attachments. Non-members will need to access the Circulars via their AAR Circular Subscriptions. These Circular Letter – Quick Notes are intended to improve accessibility to the users and are not proof of revision to the AAR, MSRP’s, Office or Field Manuals per AAR MSRP-J M-1003 2.3.5.
C-13848
Subject: Fall 2021 AAR Technical Committee Meetings
Date Issued: September 1, 2021
Date Effective: September 1, 2021
Group: Informational
Summary: Considering our country’s situation with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AAR has determined that for the second half of 2021, AAR In-person committee meetings are open only to those fully vaccinated for COVID, at least two weeks past final vaccination. Virtual meetings may be held in lieu of in-person meetings. In-person meetings may be considered private for committee members only or they may be open to the public, and that decision is up to each committee.
C-13849
Subject: Informational Circular, Car Repair Facility Labor Rate
Date Issued: September 10, 2021
Date Effective: October 1, 2021
Group: Repair Shop
Summary: The Car Repair Facility Labor Rate is $131.73. This represents an increase of 90 cents (0.7%) from the calculation for 7/1/21. Two changes were made to the calculation for October:1) Wages for the US Class I Railroads were rebenchmarked from 2019 to 2020.2) Individual railroad weights for the US Class I Railroads were updated using foreign car billing for 2020.
C-13850
Subject: Informational Circular, Canadian Car Repair Facility Labor Rate
Date Issued: September 10, 2021
Date Effective: October 1, 2021
Group: Repair Shop
Summary: The Canadian Car Repair Facility Labor Rate is $206.06 CAD. This represents an increase of $1.72 CAD (0.08%) from the calculation for 7/1/21 . The currency conversion factor used to calculate the Health & Welfare portions of the 7/1/21 Canadian Labor Rate was 1.21. The currency conversion factor used to calculate the Health & Welfare portions of the 10/1/21 Canadian Labor Rate is 1.256.
C-13851
Subject: IMPLEMENTED. AAR MSRP, Section K-II Locomotive Electronics & Train Consist System Architecture, Specification M-9155.V2.4.1.
Date Issued: September 10, 2021
Date Effective: September 10, 2021
Group: Locomotive
Summary: Specification M-9155.V2.4.1 describes functional requirements in sufficient detail & accuracy to support technical proposals to develop a Locomotive Command & Control Module (LCCM) standalone device or to develop the LCCM function as part of the OEM locomotive control system. This document contains narrative describing how an Energy Management Application (EMA) may interact w/an LCCM as the Controlling Application, but does not contain EMA requirements.