JoanieBlon
Service Attendant
To all the train savy folks who post on this forum.... :help:
My husband and I LOVE train travel and are in the process of booking trips one by one on all the routes that Amtrak offers. Our next trip in the USA is New Orleans-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle in August 2011. Prior to that, we'll be traveling from Montreal to Vancouver on Canada's VIA Rail ~ with a 2 night stop-over in Jasper.
I'm VERY interested in all the various informative topics that are addressed in this forum. However ~ all the abbreviations for stations ~ PDX,PVD, MAC, QCY, FEC, ONA, CBS, etc. make me go ???? :wacko: I'm just too lazy to go look these up when I'm trying to wade through the posts here. I'm pretty sure that PDX is Portland ~ but the others?? :blink: I can guess that BOS is probably Boston, and CHI is Chicago, but some pretty obscure ones (at least in MY experience) get posted here frequently.
Worse yet for non-rail fanatics/devotees reading your posts are the other abbreviations that don't deal with cities. Some recent ones posted include MARC, CL, RFP and QC. :help: <_< I am CLUELESS! hboy:
I know it takes a little longer to type out the full words and I KNOW it's "hipper" to use railroad jargon when chatting, but it would be helpful to those of us trying to learn more about the rail routes and systems to have posts in plain language now and then....
That being said, THANK YOU for your very helpful discussions! :hi:
My husband and I LOVE train travel and are in the process of booking trips one by one on all the routes that Amtrak offers. Our next trip in the USA is New Orleans-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle in August 2011. Prior to that, we'll be traveling from Montreal to Vancouver on Canada's VIA Rail ~ with a 2 night stop-over in Jasper.
I'm VERY interested in all the various informative topics that are addressed in this forum. However ~ all the abbreviations for stations ~ PDX,PVD, MAC, QCY, FEC, ONA, CBS, etc. make me go ???? :wacko: I'm just too lazy to go look these up when I'm trying to wade through the posts here. I'm pretty sure that PDX is Portland ~ but the others?? :blink: I can guess that BOS is probably Boston, and CHI is Chicago, but some pretty obscure ones (at least in MY experience) get posted here frequently.
Worse yet for non-rail fanatics/devotees reading your posts are the other abbreviations that don't deal with cities. Some recent ones posted include MARC, CL, RFP and QC. :help: <_< I am CLUELESS! hboy:
I know it takes a little longer to type out the full words and I KNOW it's "hipper" to use railroad jargon when chatting, but it would be helpful to those of us trying to learn more about the rail routes and systems to have posts in plain language now and then....
That being said, THANK YOU for your very helpful discussions! :hi:
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