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- From: roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Roma)
- Subject: Re: Amtrak List of Trains by # (LOOONG) (fwd)
- Message-ID: <BxtvJ6.MzD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:25:40 GMT
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- tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
-
- >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)?
-
- The appearance to airport codes is merely coincidental. Amtrak has its own
- system of three-letter codes. While some of these are the same as various
- cities' airport codes, other are not. Amtrak's scheme tends to be more
- mnemonic than the codes used by the airlines.
-
- For example, Chicago-O'Hare airport is ORD; Amtrak's Chicago designation is
- the more-logical CHI. New Orleans' airport is MSY; Amtrak uses NOL. My
- home town of Champaign, Illinois is known to the airlines as CMI but to
- Amtrak as CHM.
- --
- Jon Roma
- Computing and Communications Services Office,
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Internet: roma@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!roma
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