EDI 161 Trainsheet
Implementation, exchange, and validation of the AAR EDI 161 Trainsheet message between carriers — generated, sent, received, reconciled.
EDI 161 is the standard trainsheet message used by North American Class 1 carriers to exchange train consist information at the moment of interchange. The message looks simple from a hundred feet up; once you start implementing it, the details multiply.
What We Deliver
- Generation — produce 161 messages from your operational systems with all required loop structures, segment-level data, and AAR-defined codes.
- Validation — schema-level checks plus business-rule validation aligned with the AAR's published specifications and any carrier-specific addenda.
- Exchange — Railinc-routed transmission, including ASN/MDN acknowledgments and exception-tracking.
- Receipt & ingest — parse incoming 161s, reconcile against expected trains, flag mismatches for operator review.
- Historical exchange — replay, audit, and reconcile messages for periods of interest.
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