This has been discussed before, but over on the New York forum, they're saying the railroad is going to alpha symbols. Anybody out there who works for CSX confirm or deny the story?
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Conrail always used an Alfa system which makes sents take the first 2 letters of the city in which the train starts in and the first 2 letters of the city in which it ends in. Such as former Conrail Train BUSY (Buffalo-Syracuse) SYBU (Syracuse-Buffalo)
I agree that Con_rail's system made moresense...but the way CSXT is supposedly gonna do it, is going to be a bit more than just the 1st 2 letters of origin and destination cities and the date of origin.
What I heard is that it will be 1st 3 letters of origin and destination cities, a "section #", then the 2 numbers for the date. For example Selkirk to Buffalo on October 4th would be SELBUF-01-04, and if another section ran on same day it would be SELBUF-02-04.
Conrail would have been SEBU-04 and if a 2nd section was needed, that 2nd section would have been SEBU-04-B
The latter of course seems simpler.
What I heard is that it will be 1st 3 letters of origin and destination cities, a "section #", then the 2 numbers for the date. For example Selkirk to Buffalo on October 4th would be SELBUF-01-04, and if another section ran on same day it would be SELBUF-02-04.
Conrail would have been SEBU-04 and if a 2nd section was needed, that 2nd section would have been SEBU-04-B
The latter of course seems simpler.
O'Boy looks like a CN Alpha System it took me months to figure that one out. They Way CN dose it. Each province has a number followed by a letter .i.d giveing the divtion in which it started followed by the starting city then the ending city followed by the date in which it started.