Okay. So some of us, like me, are not fully familiar with all of the three letter codes for each and every Amtrak station. It would make things easier for me if the station name was used in these posts instead of the code. For example, WAS or NYP, are easy to figure out while who could guess where OKO (Okemo VT) was? It would be better for me if the city was named.
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Posted by Eric (Member # 674) on :
Just in case, here is an address that might be useful: http://tickets.amtrak.com/slcA.htm I know that Albany and Albuquerque get mixed up a lot, and some other places too, and I doubt many of us have memorized all of them yet!
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Posted by Konstantin (Member # 18) on :
I agree with you Ken. Sometimes people on this forum use so many abbreviations that I cannot understand what they are talking about.
Please explain things without so many abbreviations.
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Posted by RRRICH (Member # 1418) on :
The current AMTRAK timetables always list the city codes after the city names at the beginning of the timetable. Some of us have such a hobby with trains and AMTRAK, that we automatically use the codes rather than the names (less words to write, especially if you are a lousy typist, like I am!)
Sorry about that ----
Posted by Ken V (Member # 1466) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eric: Just in case, here is an address that might be useful: http://tickets.amtrak.com/slcA.htm I know that Albany and Albuquerque get mixed up a lot, and some other places too, and I doubt many of us have memorized all of them yet!
I hate to admit it, but I'm not confused between ALB and ABQ. Maybe, I too, am caught up in the whole thing.
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Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
All these TLAs are OTT IMHO.
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All these three letter acronyms are over the top in my humble/honest opinion.
Geoff M.
Posted by paulfnshore (Member # 1201) on :
I have been using thre letter codes for every location i visit whther it does or does not have a train station and some are not easy to decipher but i often tell popel what they mean i.e: GHD-Glen Head NY MAN-Manhasset NY SRA-South Bend Airport WUR-Wurtsboro Airport NY PDO-Oswego NY
Posted by trainman1 (Member # 1392) on :
quote:Originally posted by paulfnshore: SRA-South Bend Airport
Where did you get this one? The official code for this airport is SBN (and meanwhile, the South Bend Amtrak station is SOB).
Posted by Ken V (Member # 1466) on :
I'm reviving this old thread due to a couple of recent postings:
quote:Originally posted by amtraxmaniac: From experience, expect 703 to be on time or even early into SAC. NB CS into SAC USUALLY gets in between 12:30a or 1:00a...
Ken - in frigid TWO
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Posted by Railroad Bob (Member # 3508) on :
NB CS= North Bound Coast Starlight
SAS= San Antonio, TexaSSS.
IOW= I Only Want (this thread to stop) just kidding...
Posted by sbalax (Member # 2801) on :
Hey, the problems exist with airline 3 letter airport codes too. I remember checking in here in Santa Barbara (SBA) for a flight to London Gatwick (LGW) and having the agent tell me she hoped I had a nice flight to New York La Guardia (LGA). And some, like Fresno, CA, are just funny. (FAT for Fresno Air Terminal) or rude like FUK (Fukuoka, Japan). And then there's ORD. How many of you know what it REALLY stands fo? No, it's not O'Hare Deadend.
Frank in Dark but Warm SBA.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
ORD = Orchard Field or something. MSY (New Orleans) = Moissant Stock Yards. Best not to get your bag sent to BHX instead of BHM - both Birmingham, but the first is in the UK, the second in Alabama.
Amtrak have got quite a few stations with the same three letter code as the airport.
Geoff M.
Posted by sbalax (Member # 2801) on :
You win the cigar! Orchard Field was renamed O'Hare to honor a WWII pilot.
LAX was originally Mines Field. The X is just a place holder and has no meaning.
Frank in Sunny, Warm SBA (An example of Amtrak using the airport code!
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Quiz:
Where was (hint) SAM.
Also:
Maintenance facilities not firectly connected to a station have their own codes, ones coming to mind are--
BEE Beech Grove, IN SSY Sunnyside Yark, Queens, NY. HIA Haialeah, FL
Likely the Rendondo Beach facility in LA has its own code, and even possibly Lumber Street, Chicago - I simply do not know them.
Other Airport codes not readilly decipherable:
MCO MCcOy Field, Orlando International FL BNA Nashville origin???? SDF StanDiFord Field, Louisville KY SNA John Wayne Memorial Orange County Airport SaNtA Ana, CA
Posted by Grandma Judy (Member # 3278) on :
Say it with me: M-K-E Gotta be Milwaukee
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
BNA = Briley Field, Nashville, Tennessee MKE may be Milwaukee, but MKL is Jackson TN for McKeller Field
And,also to get totally misplaced by only one piece of a letter: MEM = Memphis Tennessee USA MFM = Macau, China (former Portugese colony on the opposite side of the Pearl River estuary from Hong Kong)
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Not forgetting SUX - Sioux City. That must really su... oh ok, so you've heard it before. http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/ is a good site for looking up airport and airline codes. There are some non-airport codes listed there too - ZYP for Penn Station, New York for example; ZUN for Chicago "Union Railway Service"(?); ZWU Washington DC. Does anybody know if they're used?
Geoff M.
Posted by Kairho (Member # 1567) on :
Some airlines used to sell tickets through to a railway station. In fact, they are still used in France, the low countries, and, I believe, England. You can buy a ticket to, say, Brussels, and change in Paris to the train, all on one ticket.
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Brilley Field, NAshville, TN
I should have known that one, Mr.Harris.
That I had to be prompted by a fellow residing in the other half of the world only adds to MY mortification.
FWIW, the Brilley Parkway, bypasses Nashville (thank God) and runs along the perimeter of the Airport. I drive it usually twice a year.
Watch your speed on that road, if you aren't, guarantee "someone else" is.
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Posted by M190 (Member # 3009) on :
My city has to claim the most insulting TLA. Bakersfield, Ca is BFD. Very descriptive actually. Sioux City (SUX) is great too though.
Posted by George Harris (Member # 2077) on :
Mr. Norman:
I may physically be on the other side of the world, but Tennessee is my home turf, even though my driver's license says Mississippi. I was born in Jackson TN (WW2 baby, my father was doing basic flight instruction at McKeller Field, so how could I not know that one?) grew up in and around Memphis have family scattered all over the state, and graduated from Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, and have been in and out of Nashville by train, plane, and bus. As to the MEM / MFM, I have managed to go through the airports in both places.
George
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
Should San Luis Obispo (SLO) be temporarily referred to as SOL until the Coast Line is repaired?
Posted by Railroad Bob (Member # 3508) on :
Absolutely not, TwinStarRocket. The nice folks in Solana Beach, California (SOL) would be upset if you dared to do this.
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