TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: railroad
to: MIKE HUDSON
from: DON DELLMANN
date: 1997-05-13 16:41:00
subject: Re: More confessions of a

While tripping merrily through the mail, Mike Hudson was overheard
 MH> I'd like to know where you got this information from...because this is
 MH> the first time I've ever heard that vanicular for CSX.  The X stands
 MH> for Corporation, as is on many freight cars UTLX, GATX, etc...
 MH> The C stands for Chessie System
 MH> The S stands for Seaboard System.
In the AAR reporting marks the "X" actually stands for a private owner as
opposed tp cars owned bu a "common carrier".
(UTLX, Union Tank Lines, GATX, General American Tank {or transportation}, 
etc.)
Don
... My other car is a Pullman
---
---------------
* Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.