U.S. Department of Transportation

FRA Safety Data Web Services

The Federal Railroad Administration's rail safety web services, and the only SOAP surface in the department. Two WSDL 1.1 contracts were retrieved live and harvested verbatim on 2026-07-28. The Master Web Service (DatadownloadService.asmx, 30 operations) exposes the Rail Equipment Accident/Incident Report (Form 54), the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report (Form 57), Form 55 and 55a, grade crossing inventory, defect and PHMSA defect data, hazmat shipper data and railroad reference data, each retrievable by railroad or by state, plus per-form schema operations. The Lite API (LiteApiService.asmx, 5 operations) returns casualty, enforcement, summary, ten-year and train accident series by year. Declared a pilot by FRA. Accounts are requested by email to RsisSupport@dot.gov — the Master service and the Lite API require separate requests.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/FRASafetyDataAPIs.aspx

Other Resources

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WSDL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-dot/refs/heads/main/wsdl/us-dot-fra-datadownload-service.wsdl
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WSDL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-dot/refs/heads/main/wsdl/us-dot-fra-lite-api-service.wsdl
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TermsOfService
https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/Terms.aspx
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BulkData
https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: us-dot:fra-safety-data-api
name: FRA Safety Data Web Services
description: The Federal Railroad Administration's rail safety web services, and the only SOAP surface
  in the department. Two WSDL 1.1 contracts were retrieved live and harvested verbatim on 2026-07-28.
  The Master Web Service (DatadownloadService.asmx, 30 operations) exposes the Rail Equipment Accident/Incident
  Report (Form 54), the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report (Form 57), Form 55 and 55a,
  grade crossing inventory, defect and PHMSA defect data, hazmat shipper data and railroad reference data,
  each retrievable by railroad or by state, plus per-form schema operations. The Lite API (LiteApiService.asmx,
  5 operations) returns casualty, enforcement, summary, ten-year and train accident series by year. Declared
  a pilot by FRA. Accounts are requested by email to RsisSupport@dot.gov — the Master service and the
  Lite API require separate requests.
humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/FRASafetyDataAPIs.aspx
baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService
tags:
- Rail
- Safety
- Accidents
- Grade Crossings
- FRA
- SOAP
properties:
- type: WSDL
  name: FRA Master Web Service (Data Download)
  url: wsdl/us-dot-fra-datadownload-service.wsdl
- type: WSDL
  name: FRA Lite API Service
  url: wsdl/us-dot-fra-lite-api-service.wsdl
- type: Documentation
  url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/FRASafetyDataAPIs.aspx
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/Terms.aspx
- type: BulkData
  url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx