The content of the Open Top Loading Rules Manual is advanced by the AAR Open Top Loading Rules Committee and is issued by authority of AAR’s Safety and Operations. The entire manual is comprised of seven books. Each has a specific focus and application covering industry requirements and procedures for loading and securing various commodities on open top railcar, as well as open top trailers and containers that are to be loaded on railcar for transport.
Following is a brief description of each section:
The Open Top Loading Rules are comprised of seven volumes:
Section 1
General Rules Governing Loading of Commodities on Open Top Cars. Contains general rules and guidelines applicable to all commodities shipped on open top railcars in interchange service. This includes procedures for open top load testing and rule changes, party responsibilities, minimum requirements, and guidance on setting up multicar and dimensional load shipments. Also included are lists of various approved tie-down and securement materials as well as specifications, performance standards, and test procedures for gaining product approval. This section is to be used in conjunction with Sections 2 through 6.
Section 2
Rules Governing Loading of Steel Products Including Pipe on Open Top Cars. Contains approved loading figures (load patterns) with securement specifications for all steel products including unprocessed, structural, fabricated (except machinery), scrap, raw metals as well as steel and iron pipe. This section is to be used in conjunction with Section 1.
Section 3
Rules Governing Loading of Heavy Equipment, Vehicles, and Farm Machinery on Open Top Cars. Contains approved loading figures (load patterns) with securement specifications and block patterns for farm equipment, vehicles, and machinery such as tractors, combines, heavy equipment, and other implements used in road grading/making, excavating, etc. This section is to be used in conjunction with Section 1.
Section 4
Rules Governing Loading of Miscellaneous Commodities, Including Machinery on Open Top Cars. Contains approved loading figures (load patterns) with securement specifications for such commodities as cranes, nonmetallic pipe, tanks, transformers, boilers, locomotives, car bodies, etc. This section is to be used in conjunction with Section 1.
Section 5
Rules Governing Loading of Forest Products, Including Miscellaneous Building Materials, on Open Top Cars. Contains approved loading figures (load patterns) with securement specifications for wood commodities like lumber, logs, poles, pulpwood, certain panel products, and fabricated products such as lamin ated beams, veneer lumber, etc. Also included are miscellaneous building materials such as gypsum, hardboard, cellulose
board, and styrene sheets. This section is to be used in conjunction with Section 1.
Section 6
Rules Governing Loading of Military Vehicles and Materiel on Open Top Cars. Contains approved loading figures (load patterns) with securement specifications for military vehicles, equipment, and materiel. This includes armored tanks and similar vehicles, trucks, artillery, pontoons, cranes, road building and materiel handling equipment such as forklifts. This section is to be used in conjunction with Section 1.
Section 7
Rules Governing Loading of Commodities on Open Top Trailers and Containers for Rail Transport. This is the only stand-alone section of the manual. In the front portion of the section are the General Rules (see description for Section No. 1) applicable to all commodities shipped on open top trailers and containers that are to be transported on railcars in interchange service. Also incorporated are loading figures that include drawings of approved load designs and patterns for various commodities with securement specifications.
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