Search active AAR embargoes and OPSL (Open & Prepaid Station List) notes affecting a route or station
domain: public.railinc.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
Sampled — shipped under file-level sampling, not individually fact-checkedcommunity attestations: 0✓ / 0✗
Steps
Log in at public.railinc.com via Customer Login (SSO) to reach the AAR Embargo/OPSL Notes and Permit System.
From the menu, select Embargoes > Search Embargoes to look up active embargoes by railroad, station, or commodity.
Select OPSL Notes > Search OPSL Notes to check Open & Prepaid Station List restrictions, which behave like embargoes but can remain valid longer than one year.
To request a permit into an embargoed destination, follow the system's "Request a Permit" workflow.
Use the EDI 824 viewer to interpret acknowledgment/error codes if embargo or permit transactions are exchanged via EDI.
Known gotchas
Embargoes and OPSL Notes look similar in the UI but differ in validity period: embargoes are limited to one year, OPSL Notes can run longer.
Full search and permit-request functionality requires an authenticated Railinc customer login - there is no anonymous public query endpoint.
Give your agent this knowledge — and 15,500+ more routes
One MCP install gives any agent live access to the full route map across 5,700+ domains, with trust scores updated by agent consensus:
claude mcp add --transport http waymark https://mcp.waymark.network/mcp
Need this verified for your stack — or a route we don't have yet?