For the subway it is whatever the departing terminal was and the time of departure...like Pelham 123 - except it should have been Pelham 1323. If you happen to have a scanner, you would hear RCC call "2250 South Ferry for radio check" etc all the time...which would be the the 10:50pm #1 train departure out of South Ferry for 242nd Street
"I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose."
Which for the record are:
Apple
Bravo- sometimes the Beyonce
Charlie
Delta - sometimes the dog.
Echo
Fox
Golf
Hotel - but they just call it the shuttle
Juliet
Larry
Mike
November but some people call it the Nancy.
Quebec but people call it Quincy sometimes, which sounds like Whiskey
Romeo
Whiskey
"I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose."