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- From: ovr@lk-hp-4.hut.fi (Otto-Ville Ronkainen)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Amtrak List of Trains by # (LOOONG) (fwd)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.200250.22489@cs.hut.fi>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:02:50 GMT
- References: <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: ovr@snakemail.hut.fi (Otto-Ville Ronkainen)
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- In article <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
- >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)?
-
- Convenience to the passenger? (And probably the assumption that there
- is an airport in every town that still has a railroad station.)
- And isn't a bit confusing to guess whether to use LPP, Lr or Lpr for
- the same town (in this case, Lappeenranta, Finland)?
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