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- From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Amtrak List of Trains by # (LOOONG) (fwd)
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:31:37
- Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information
- Processing (VTT/TIK)
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- In-reply-to: plaws@uafhp.uark.edu's message of 15 Nov 1992 19:44:58 -0600
-
- In article <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> plaws@uafhp.uark.edu (Peter Laws) writes:
- 1) Taken from _Amtrak System Train Timetables_, valid through 4/3/93.
-
- 1 Sunset Ltd. NOL LAX 136 Comb w/21 SAS
- ^^^ ^^^
-
- Why does Amtrak use what I assume are *airport* designators for
- stations? Isn't that both stupid, as trains are supposed to compete
- with airplanes, and misleading, as many cities have several airports,
- none of which presumably are as conveniently located as the railway
- station(s)?
- --
- Tor Lillqvist,
- working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland,
- Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK).
-