BS: RR names vs RR initials

Subject: RR names vs RR initials
From:
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 04:42 AM

I was just wondering if there is a site that has the initials of the various railroads that exist/have existed in the US with their names and initials and a brief description of where they went (if necessary).

You see a lot of reference to the intitals in folk songs.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From: Pene Azul
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 04:52 AM

www.rrhistorical.com looks like a nice resource.

Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 09:14 AM

Here's the first page of a long list called Name Trains by Railroad. I think it contains what you're looking for.

(I found this by using Google. As my search argument, I strung together a few RR initials that I happened to know: "C&O CMSP&P GM&O". A few more clicks and I was there.)

Browsing through this list is a nostalgic exercise for an American. Most of the passenger trains listed here have disappeared. Intercity passenger trains always had romantic sounding names, not just route numbers like modern airline flights. The Empire Builder. The Mainstreeter. The City of New Orleans. And so on.

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 12:11 PM

My grandmothers house in Emporia, Kansas was right next to the station, and as a 9 year old or so, I used to keep a list of RR names I saw...(as well as locomotive types...2-6-2, etc,)

My father was a Western Union lineman who strung the telegraph lines when the D&RGW completed the Dotsero cutoff which connected to the Moffat tunnel thru the Rockies outside of Denver, making a direct transcontinental railroad a reality.......so I used to hear RR names tossed about in my house a lot...

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 12:11 PM

I forgot to add: If you look at Train Stations in the U.S.A. (East) or Train Stations in the U.S.A. (West) or Train Stations in Canada, you will see a list of major cities and all the railroad lines that ran to or through them.

For trains that still exist, you can check Amtrak. For example, the train called the Empire Builder still exists but it is operated by Amtrak instead of CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy), or GN (Great Northern). Amtrak has complete schedules online, showing all the stations a train stops at, not just its terminal points.

More information than you wanted to know, I'm sure!

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From: rangeroger
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 10:59 PM

Oh, I thought this thread was about me.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: RR names vs RR initials
From:
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 01:33 AM

Jeff, that is an interesting resource and I have bookmarked it. I haven't had a chance to see if it has what I want, but it has plenty of other goodies.

Jim, that resource is also interesting and has a lot of the info I want. I was really interested in a table-type thing that had eg as one entry on one column "ACL" and on another column "Atlantic Coast Line" (Which seems to be called the "Atlantic Coastal Line" by the Stoneman family--unless that is yet a different one.

Thanks,

Murray