What you can ask

“What does FRA Railroad Safety have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
“Pull the most recent FRA Railroad Safety records and put them in a table.”
“What does FRA Railroad Safety cover, and how fresh is the data?”

Connect to your AI assistant

Paste this URL into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client, then sign in when prompted. FRA Railroad Safety is ready as soon as you sign in.

https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Add to Claude Add to ChatGPT Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Claude: use Add to Claude, or Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector and paste the URL.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http patchops https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Step by step

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Open connectors
In Claude, open Settings > Connectors and click "Add custom connector".
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Paste the URL
Name it PatchOps and paste https://patchops.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, then click Add.
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Sign in
Click Connect and sign in to PatchOps when Claude asks.
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Start using
Ask Claude a question. It uses FRA Railroad Safety through PatchOps when it needs to.

› Technical details

FRA Railroad Safety — Federal Railroad Administration (US DOT) Office of Safety Analysis accident/incident data, served via Socrata SODA on the USDOT open-data portal (data.transportation.gov). Two datasets: Form 54 — Rail Equipment Accident/Incident (~224K rows, 1975–present: derailments, collis...

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