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  3. From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
  4. Subject: Re: Amtrak List of Trains by # (LOOONG) (fwd)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144544.24267@bony1.bony.com>
  6. Organization: LA&W RR
  7. References: <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
  8. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:45:44 GMT
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  10.  
  11. In article <TML.92Nov16103137@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
  12. >In article <Pine.3.05.9211151945.A26182-e100000@uafhp.uark.edu> plaws@uafhp.uark.edu (Peter Laws) writes:
  13. >    1) Taken from _Amtrak System Train Timetables_, valid through 4/3/93.
  14. >
  15. >     1 Sunset Ltd.             NOL LAX 136 Comb w/21 SAS
  16. >                   ^^^ ^^^
  17. >
  18. >Why does Amtrak use what I assume are *airport* designators for
  19. >stations? Isn't that both stupid, as trains are supposed to compete
  20. >with airplanes, and misleading, as many cities have several airports,
  21. >none of which presumably are as conveniently located as the railway
  22. >station(s)?
  23.  
  24. I don't know where Amtrak came up with it's abreviations, but is it
  25. possible that some were adopted from the roads over which Amtrak
  26. opperates?  Could it be that the RR's used LAX first?
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