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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Amtrak List of Trains by # (LOOONG) (fwd)
- Message-ID: <7932@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:53:45 GMT
- References: <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> <BxuBsq.167@access.digex.com>
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- In article <BxuBsq.167@access.digex.com> terryfry@access.digex.com (Terry Fry) writes:
- > In article <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> 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?
- >
- > You have a valid question, but the answer makes sense (err, sorta).
- >
- So now we have the answer. I have still one question left: which code means
- what? I know that LAX is Los Angelos, but what is NOL? New Orleans? Or
- what? Can somebody provide a translation of the codes used?
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