• SAL/ACL milepost prefixes

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  by SPUI
 
There doesn't seem to be a forum for ACL/SAL/SCL, so I'm asking this here. I'm looking for detailed information on the milepost prefixes for these lines. I know the general system, and a lot of the designations for the main lines. However I'm missing a lot of the older lines. Does anyone here have information like that?

Also, does anyone have history on the labeling system? When was it first laid out?

And questions about a few specific lines (all ACL for now):
Where was AV? I've found AVB (Kissimmee to Apopka), but no AV. Was A once called AV in that area?
Where was AZ? AZA is the line from Tampa to Sarasota (still used by CSX).

A few things I've noticed since compiling the list below:
I and Q are skipped.
Double letters (like AKK) are skipped.
It appears from the three-letter ones that what's now A was once all two-letter ones (possibly before the ACL and SAL merged). Specifically:
AM Charleston - Savannah
AV Orlando - Plant City?
AZ Plant City? - Port Tampa?

AN could have continued from Jesup to Savannah. Or maybe AS continued from Palatka to Savannah, explaining ASG and company in Jacksonville and ASO in Savannah. AC may have continued from Florence, with ACN in Charleston.

AL* seems to have been used for power plants - at least with ALK and ALR.

Thanks for any information.
Last edited by SPUI on Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:55 pm, edited 3 times in total.

  by SPUI
 
Might as well post what I have:

A Richmond - Port Tampa

AA Pender - Kinston
AAB Parmele - Washington

AB Rocky Mount - Portsmouth?
ABA Rocky Mount - Spring Hope and beyond
ABC Tarboro - Plymouth
ABD
ABE near Portsmouth?

AC Wilson - Pee Dee
ACA Warsaw - Clinton
ACB Wilmington - New Bern
ACD spur from ACB at Jacksonville
ACE
ACF
ACG
ACH Chadbourn - Myrtle Beach
ACJ
ACK
ACL
ACM
ACN somewhere in Charleston?

AD Smithfield - Goldsboro ???

AE Fayetteville - Sanford

AF Fayetteville - Wilmington

AG Fayetteville - Darlington?
AGA Bennettsville - Gibson?

AH Elrod - Chadbourn?

AJ Florence - Wadesboro
AJA Floyds - Hartsville

AJRB somewhere in Richmond?

AK Florence - Spartanburg
AKA Sumter - Columbia?
AKB spur off AKA east of Columbia
AKC
AKD
AKE Creston - Pregnalls
AKF
AKG
AKH McCormick - Anderson
AKJ Laurens - Greenville
AKL Greenwood - Spartanburg
AKM Belton - Anderson?

AL Lanes - Sumter?
ALA
ALB
ALC
ALD
ALE
ALF
ALG
ALH
ALJ
ALK? Taft - Stanton Power Plant
ALM
ALN
ALO
ALP
ALR Cross Junction - Cross

AM short spur near Charleston
AMA
AMB Ravenel - Yonge's Island
AMC
AMD
AME
AMF Green Pond - Ehrhardts
AMG spur from AMF to Canadys
AMH Yemassee - Robbins
AMJ Yemassee - Port Royal
AMK
AML
AMN
AMO
AMP
AMR
AMS somewhere in Port Royal?

AN Jesup - Montgomery?
ANA Waycross - Folkston
ANB Waycross - Atlanta
ANC Thomasville - Albany
AND Thomasville - Dunnellon (Perry Cut-Off)
ANE Climax - Chattahoochee
ANF Abbeville Junction - Abbeville
ANG Elba Junction - Elba
ANH Sprague Junction - Luverne ???
ANJ Manchester - Birmingham
ANK Thomasville - Moultrie (originally Fitzgerald - Thomasville, a spur off ANB)
ANL
ANM
ANO somewhere in Atlanta?

AO Waycross - Brunswick
AOA
AOB near Brunswick

AOU? Taft - Stanton Power Plant (OUC)

AP Waycross - Albany

AR Dupont - Lakeland
ARA Lake City Junction - Lake City
ARB High Springs - Gainesville
ARC Juliette - Ocala
ARD Dunnellon - Homosassa
ARE Trilby - St. Petersburg
ARF Vitis - Tampa

ARN somewhere in Richmond

AS Palatka - Brooksville
ASA Micanopy Jct - Tacoma ???
ASB Citra Jct - Citra ???
ASC Leesburg? - Astor
ASD Fort Mason? - Lake Harris
ASE DeLand Junction - DeLand
ASF Okahumpa - Howey in the Hills
ASG Jacksonville - Wilcox Junction
ASH in Jacksonville?
ASJ in Jacksonville
ASJA in Jacksonville
ASK in Jacksonville (west bypass from A to SP)

ASO somewhere in Savannah?
AST in Jacksonville (alternate name for ASJA?)

AT Sanford - Trilby
ATA Sanford - Tavares
ATB Winter Garden - Ocoee (later designation given after this was cut off from the SAL's Tavares and Gulf, STA)

AU Sanford - Oviedo
AUA Sanford and Everglades

AV
AVA
AVB Kissimmee - Apopka
AVC Haines City - Everglades City
AVD Harrisburg - Duda
AVE somewhere in the Everglades?
AVF Keela - Lake Harbor

AW Lake Alfred - Bartow

AX Lakeland - Naples

AY Winston - Fort Meade

AZ
AZA Tampa - Sarasota
Last edited by SPUI on Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:26 pm, edited 5 times in total.

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  by crazy_nip
 
before the SCL merger in 1967, there were no "A" or "S" prefixes in front of the mileposts, or on the timetables.

For instance, milepost A880.1 on the SCL or CSX would have been milepost 880.1 on the ACL

same as milepost AZA 886.3 on CSX would have been ZA 886.3 on the ACL

same for the SAL.

If you have specific questions as to which mileposts were on which lines, I can answer that, although SPUI did a pretty good job for the ACL side