Conrail Symbols

Is there a list of Conrail two letter symbol abreviations anywhere on the web? I haven't been able to find one.

Specifically, I'm curious what IH was.

I believe IH was Gibson Yard, the easternmost point of the Indiana Harbor Belt RR.

as far as detroit goes, here are the symbals we use depnding on the yard were at;

Rouge Yard=RR +job #
Livernois Yard=LV +job #
North Yard=NY +job #
Mack Yard=MY +job #
Mound Yard=MR +job #
Sterling Yard=WS +job #

zoomdude wrote:Rouge Yard=RR
Sterling Yard=WS +job #

Were they once River Rouge and West Sterling?

Geneva, NY-- GY Tower this was the boarder line where the Buffalo Div. and Albany Div. met.

Here is a neat website--maybe it will help.

http://www.jalexlang.com/crsched/index.html

Great site... thanks.

Get yourself a copy of Conrail Commodities... describes a variety of traffic that traversed the system, with an explanation of symbols. Is there some train symbol you are trying to decode?

http://www.amazon.com/Conrail-Commoditi ... 0964042509

-otto-

Otto,

Not any one in particular, but as I scan my old slides, I've got hundreds with symbols written on them. It's nice now to be able to add the additional information of where and what the train was going/was whenever I can.

I'll look into that book.

Charles

Conrail Commodities would explain a lot of that- the originating traffic, the connecting traffic, etc etc.

For the most part, if you have the train symbol... anyone can look it up and find out what it is. So don't worry if you don't know the symbol, someone else will!

-otto-

Okay... I'll take you up on that. First one I'm looking at is SENH. I got the SE (in fact I shot the train coming out of Selkirk). What was NH?

Never mind... should have Googled first. It's New Haven.

Here's one for you..WQST(i've only seen this symbol once,and i may have an idea what the ST is).Anyone know this train? Also,someone may have given the wrong symbol when i seen this listing..

W on the symbol denoted a local switcher. The Q is probably incorrect - because that letter indicated the Division (such as H for Harrisburg, or A for Albany). I don't recall any Conrail Division that started with Q. I have no idea what the ST stood for.

The "ST",as i was led to believe,was St.Thomas,Ont.This was a Canada Southern(CASO)train of years ago.We're going back in the late 70's/early 80's..

That explains it. Maybe the Canada Divsion used the letter Q.