reporting marks

jim currie

Active Member
seen a up train with a inclosed car carrier with TFM could not find in info i have . also same train there was a loco with
GEC ALSTROM(might be ALSTREOM hard to read notes) markings again no info any one know these?
 

SOO < 1987 < WC

New Member
GEC Alsthom is a leasing company and TFM stands for:Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana

I've seen a lot of GEC Alsthom locomotives around my area in WI ever since CN took over and then found out they needed more power.
 

jim currie

Active Member
thanks soo
must be here on power pool i dont think up has a shortage around here since merger, also were right next to mex border explains the tfc.
 

SOO < 1987 < WC

New Member
I've heard during the summer, railroads aren't that busy(business is down), so since it's getting near the end of summer and start of fall, maybe UP by you isn't quite ready. Just a thought
 

jon-monon

Active Member
Jim Currie asked me to post this list of reporting marks, and you may get an updated list anytime at http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/rep_mrks.html

AA Ann Arbor Railroad
ABL Alameda Belt Line
AC Algoma Central Railway
ACL Atlantic Coast Line
ACWR Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway
ADBF Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road
ADIR Adirondack Railway
ADMX ADM Transportation (Archer-Daniels-Midland, Lessee)
ADN Ashley, Drew & Northern Railway
AEC Atlantic & East Carolina Railway
AERC Albany & Eastern Railroad
AFRR Amador Foothills Railroad
AHW Ahnapee & Western Railway
AJ Alma & Jonquieres Railway
AKDN Acadiana Railway
AL Almanor Railroad
ALM Arkansas, Louisiana Mississippi Railroad
ALS Alton & Southern Railway
AM Arkansas & Missouri Railroad
AMC Amador Central Railroad
AMR Arcata & Mad River Railroad
AMTK Amtrak
AN Apalachicola Northern Railroad
AOK Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad
APA Apache Railway
APNC Appanoose County Community Railroad
APXX Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions
AR Aberdeen & Rockfish
ARA Arcade & Attica Railroad
ARN Alberta RailNet
ARR Alaska Railroad
ARZC Arizona & California Railroad
ASAB Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway
ASML Atlanta, Stone Mountain & Lithonia Railway
ASRY Ashland Railway
ATLT AT&L Railroad
ATSF Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
ATW Atlantic & Western Railway
AUNW Austin & Northwestern Railroad
AWP Atlanta & West Point Railroad
AZCR Arizona Central Railroad
BAP Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway
BAR Bangor & Aroostook
BAYL The Bay Line Railroad
BCER British Columbia Electric Railway
BCH British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority
BCLR Bay Colony Railroad
BCOL BC Rail Ltd.
BCVX TransLink (West Coast Express)
BDTL Ballard Terminal
BDW Bad Water Line
BJRY Burlington Junction Railway
BLA Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad
BLE Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad
BLMR Blue Mountain Railroad
BLOL Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad
BM Boston & Maine Corporation
BMH Beaufort & Morehead Railway
BMS Berlin Mills Railway
BN Burlington Northern Railroad
BNML Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba
BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe
BO Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
BOCT Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
BPRR Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad Inc.
BRC Belt Railway Company of Chicago
BRW Black River & Western Corp.
BS Birmingham Southern Railroad
BSOR Buffalo Southern Railroad Inc.
BVRY Brandywine Valley Railroad
CA Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad
CAD Cadiz Railroad
CAGY Columbus & Greenville Railway
CALA Carolina Southern Railroad
CANX CANAC International
CBC Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs
CBL Conemaugh & Black Lick Railroad
CBNS Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia
CBQ Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
CBRW Columbia Basin Railroad
CBRY Copper Basin Railway
CC Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad
CC&O Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio
CCCL Connecticut Central Railroad
CCGX Cando Contracting
CCKY Chattooge & Chickamauga Railway
CCPR Chelatchie Prairie Railroad
CCT Central California Traction
CDAC Canadian American Railroad
CDR Cape Cod Central
CEI Chicago & Eastern Illinois
CEMR Central Manitoba Railway
CERA Central Railroad of Indianapolis
CFC Chemin de fer Charlevoix
CFM Chemin de fer de la Matepedia
CFNR California Northern Railroad
CFWR Caney Fork and Western Railroad
CG Central of Georgia
CGT Canada & Gulf Terminal Railway
CGW Chicago Great Western
CIM Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway
CIND Central Railroad of Indiana
CIRR Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad
CKRY Central Kansas Railway
CKSO Condon, Kinzua & Southern Railroad
CLC Columbia & Cowlitz Railway
CLP Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad
CLSL Columbia & Silver Creek Railroad
CM Central Montana Rail
CMER Curtis, Milburn & Eastern Railroad
CMNW Chicago Missouri & Western Railway
CMO Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
CN Canadian National Railway
CNJ Central Railroad of New Jersey
CNW Chicago & Northwestern
CO Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
COER Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad
COP City of Prineville Railway
CORP Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad
CP Canadian Pacific Railway
CPDR Carolina Piedmont Railroad
CPLT Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railroad
CR Conrail
CRIP Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
CRL Chicago Rail Link
CRR Clinchfield Railroad
CS Colorado & Southern
CSCD Cascade & Columbia River Railroad
CSO Connecticut Southern Railroad
CSP Camas Prairie Railroad
CSXT CSX Transportation
CTN Canton Railroad
CTRW Carlton Trail Railway
CUVA Cuyahoga Valley Railway
CV Central Vermont
CW Coloroado & Wyoming Railway
CWEX Commonwealth Edison
CWL Cornwall Railroad
CWP Chicago, West Pullman & Southern Railroad
CWR California Western Railroad
CWRL Central Western Railway
CWWR Chehalis Western Railroad
CYDX Conrad Yelvingston Distributors
DAIR D&I Railroad
DAKR Dakota Rail
DEEX Detroit Edison
DGNO Dallas, Garland & Northeastern Railroad
DH Delaware and Hudson Railway
DL Delaware - Lackawanna Railroad
DLCR Delaware Coast Line Railroad
DLMX Daylight Locomotives & Machine Works
DLW Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
DM Detroit & Mackinac Railway
DME Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
DMIR Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway
DMVW Dakota, Missuri Valley & Western Railroad
DNE Duluth & Northeastern Railroad
DQE De Queen & Eastern Railroad
DR Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad
DRGW Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
DRI Davenport, Rock Island & North Western Railroad
DRIR Denver Rock Island Railroad
DSRC Dakota Southern Railway
DTI Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
DTS Detroit & Toledo Short Line
DV Delaware Valley Railway
DVR Devco Railway
ECXX ECDC Environmental
EE Ellis & Eastern
EEC East Erie Commercial Railroad
EIRR Eastern Idaho Railroad
EJE Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway
EL Erie Lackawanna
ELS Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad
EMRY Eastern Maine Railway
EN Canadian Pacific Railway
ENR E&N Railway
EPTC East Portland Traction
ESHR Eastern Shore Railroad
ESLJ East St. Louis Junction Railroad
ETL Essex Terminal Railway
EUKA Eureka Southern Railroad
FAPR Floydada & Plainview Railroad
FCEW Florida Central Railroad
FCIN Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad
FCP Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pac¡fico
FCRR should possibly be FCEW
FDDM Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway
FEC Florida East Coast Railway
FMRC Farmrail
FNM FNM
FP Fordyce and Princeton Railroad
FRR Falls Road Railroad
FRVR Fox River Valley Railroad
FRY Fore River Railway
FSR Fort Smith Railroad
FUS Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste
FVW Fox Valley & Western
FWCR Florida West Coast Railroad
FWD Fort Worth & Denver Railway
FWRD Fairmont & Western Railroad
GA Georgia Railroad
GANO Georgia Northern Railway
GBW Green Bay & Western Railroad
GC Georgia Central Railway
GCSR Gulf, Colorado & San Saba Railway
GCW Garden City Western Railway
GENX General Electric Railcar Services
GEXR Goderich-Exeter Railway
GF Georgia & Florida Railway
GFC Grand Falls Central Railway
GFR Grand Forks Railway
GFRR Georgia & Florida Railroad
GLSR Gloster Southern Railroad
GMD General Motors Diesel Division
GMO Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
GMRC Green Mountain Railroad
GMRY Great Miami & Scioto Railway
GMSR Gulf & Mississippi Railroad
GN Great Northern
GNRR Georgia Northeastern Railroad
GNWR Genesee & Wyoming Railroad
GOT GO Transit
GR Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad
GRN Greenville and Northern Railway
GRR Georgetown Railroad
GRWR Great Walton Rail
GSRX Golden Spike Railroad Services
GSWR Georgia Southwestern Railroad
GTIS Guilford Transportation Industries
GTRA Golden Triangle Railroad
GTW Grand Trunk Western Railroad
GU Grafton and Upton Railroad
GWR Great Western Railway
GWRC Georgia Woodland Railroad
GWWD Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway
GWWR Gateway Western Railway
HATX Helm - Atlantic Associates
HB Hampton & Branchville Railroad
HBRY Hudson Bay Railway
HBT Houston Belt & Terminal Railway
HCRY Huron Central Railroad
HCYR Horry County Railway
HESR Huron & Eastern Railway
HLCX Helm Financial
HLSC Hampton Railway
HMCR Huntsville & Madison County Railroad
HN Hutchinson & Northern Railway
HOS Hoosier Southern Railroad
HPTD High Point, Thomasville & Denton Railroad
HS Hartford & Slocomb Railroad
HSRR Hardin Southern Railroad
IAIS Iowa Interstate Railroad
IANR Iowa Northern
IC Illinois Central Railroad
ICG Illinois Central Gulf
IHB Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
IHRC Indiana Hi-Rail Corp.
IMRL I&M Rail Link
IMRR Illinois & Midland Railroad
INOH Indiana & Ohio Railroad, Inc.
INPR Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad
IOCR Indiana & Ohio Central Railroad
IORY Indiana & Ohio Railway
IR Illinois Railnet
IRRC Iowa Railroad
IRRS International Reload Systems
ISCX Inman Service Company (ISC)
ISRR Indiana Southern Railroad
ITC Illinois Terminal
IW Intermountain Western
JJRD J&J Railroad
JTFS Juniata Terminal
JXPT Jaxport Terminal Railway Co.
KBSR Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Railroad
KCCX Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation
KCNW Kelley's Creek & Northwestern Railroad
KCS Kansas City Southern Railway
KCT Kansas City Terminal
KEWH Kewash Railroad
KJRY Koekuk Junction Railway
KNOR Klamath Northern Railway
KPR Kelowna Pacific Railway
KRR Kiamichi Railroad
KSW Kansas Southwestern Railway
KWT KWT Railway, Inc.
LAL Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railway
LBR Lowville & Beaver River Railroad
LC Lancaster & Chester Railway
LCR Lake County Railroad
LDRR Louisiana & Delta Railroad
LEF Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion Railroad
LGIX Lincoln Grain
LHR Lehigh & Hudson River Railway
LHRR Longhorn Railway
LI Long Island Rail Road
LINC Lewis & Clark Railway
LIRC Louisville & Indiana Railroad
LMT Louisiana Midland Transport
LN Louisville & Nashville
LNW Louisiana & North West Railroad
LPN Longview Portland & Northern Railway
LRS Laurinburg & Southern Railroad
LRWN Little Rock & Western Railway
LS Luzerne & Susquehanna Railway
LSI Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad
LSRC Lake States Railway
LT Lake Terminal Railroad
LTCO Lakeside Transportation
LTEX Larry's Truck Electric
LTVX LTV Steel Co.
LUN Ludington and Northern Railway
LV Lehigh Valley Railroad
LVAL Lackawanna Valley Railroad
LVRC Lamoille Valley Railroad
LVRR Lycoming Valley Railroad
LWR Lakeland & Waterways Railway
LXOH Lexington & Ohio Railroad
LXVR Luxapalila Valley Railroad Inc.
MAA Magma Arizona Railroad Company
MACO McCormick, Ashland City & Nashville Railroad Co., Inc.
MARC Maryland Area Rail Commuter
MB Meridian & Bigbee Railroad
MBTA Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority
MCER Massachusetts Central Railroad
MCR McCloud Railway
MCTA Minnesota Central Railroad
MDDE Maryland & Delaware Railroad
MDW Minnesota, Dakota & Western Railway
ME Morristown & Erie Railway
MEC Maine Central Railroad
MET Modesto & Empire Traction
MGA Monongahela Railway
MH Mt. Hood Railroad
MHCO Marquette & Huron Mountain Railroad
MHWA Mohawk Adirondack & Northern Railroad
MIDH Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad
MIGN Michigan Northern Railway
MILW Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
MJ Manufacturers Junction Railway
MKCX Morrison Knudsen
MMID Maryland Midland Railway
MMRR Mid-Michigan Railroad
MNA Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad
MNL Mountain Laurel Railroad
MNN Minnesota Northern Railroad
MNNR Minnesota Commercial Railway
MNS Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway
MNVA MNVA Railroad
MOC Missouri Central
MON Monon
MOV Moshassuck Valley Railroad
MP Missouri Pacific
MPA Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad
MR McCloud River Railroad
MRL Montana Rail Link
MRR Mid-Atlantic Railroad
MS Michigan Shore Railroad
MSCI Mississippi Central Railroad
MSO Michigan Southern Railroad
MSRC MidSouth Rail
MSTL Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
MSV Mississippi & Skuna Valley Railroad
MTFR Minnesota Transfer Railway
MVT Mount Vernon Terminal Railway
MWR Muncie & Western Railroad
MWRL Mololla Western Railway
MWRR Montana Western Railway
MWRY Mineral Wells & Eastern Railroad
NACR Nashville & Ashland City Railroad
NAP Narragansett Pier Railroad
NAR Northern Alberta Railways
NBEC New Brunswick East Coast Railway
NBER Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad
NBSR New Brunswick Southern Railway
NCRR North Coast Railroad
NCVA North Carolina & Virginia Railroad
NDM Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico
NECR New England Central Railroad
NEGS New England Southern Railroad
NENE Nebraska Northeastern
NERR Nashville & Eastern Railroad
NEZP Nezperce Railroad
NH New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
NHVT New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad
NKCR Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railnet
NKP Nickel Plate Road
NLG North Louisiana & Gulf Railroad
NN Nevada Northern Railway
NN Northern Nevada Railroad
NOKL Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad
NOLR New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad
NOPB New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
NP Northern Pacific
NPPX Nebraska Public Power
NRI Nebkota Railway
NRR Nobles Rock Railroad
NS Norfolk Southern
NSTX Nucor Steel
NSWR Nelson Southwestern Railroad
NVRR Napa Valley Railroad
NW Norfolk & Western
NWP Northwestern Pacific Railroad
NYA New York & Atlantic Railway
NYC New York Central
NYSW New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad
OAR Old Augusta Railroad
OCE Oregon California & Eastern Railway
OCEX Oregon Coastline Express
OCRR Ottawa Central Railway
OCTR Octoraro Railway
OE Oregon Electric
OGEE Ogeechee Railway
OHCR Ohio Central Railroad
OHRY Owego & Hartford Railway
OKAN Okanagan Valley Railway
OLO Ontario L'Original Railway
OLYR Olympic Railroad
OMID Ontario Midland Railroad
ONT Ontario Northland Railway
ONW Oregon & Northwestern Railroad
OPE Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway
OPR Oregon Pacifc Railroad
OSRX Ontario Southland Railway
OTVR Otter Tail Valley Railroad
OUCH Ouachita Railroad
OW New York, Ontario & Western
PAL Paducah & Louisville Railroad
PBNE Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England
PC Penn Central
PCC Palouse River & Coulee City Railway
PCHR Port Colborne Harbour Railway
PCN Point Comfort & Northern Railway
PCY Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny
PGE Pacific Great Eastern
PHL Pacific Harbor Line
PIR Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad
PLE Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
PNCX Precision National
PNR Panhandle & Northern Railroad
PNW Prescott & Northwestern Railroad
PNWR Portland & Western Railroad
POTB Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad
POV Pittsburgh & Ohio Valley Railway
POVA Pend Oreille Valley Railroad
PREX Pioneer Railroad Equipment
PRR Pennsylvania Railroad
PRSL Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
PRT Parr Terminal Railroad
PRTD Portland Traction
PS Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad
PSAP Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad
PT Peninsula Terminal
PTRC Portland Terminal Railroad
PTRR Port Townsend Railroad
PW Providence and Worcester Railroad
PWJ West Jersey Railroad
QBT Quincy Bay Terminal
QCM Cartier Railway
QGRY Quebec-Gatineau Railway
QIT QIT - La Compagnie de Chemin de Fer de la Riviere Romaine
QNSL Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway
QRC Quebec Railway Corporation
QRR Quincy Railroad
QS Quebec Southern
RARW Rarus Railway
RBMN Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad
RDG The Reading Company
RFRX Rick Franklin Corp.
RI Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
RLGN Mackenzie Northern Railway
RLHH Southern Ontario Railway
RLK Ottawa Valley Railway
RRVW Red River Valley & Western Railroad
RS Roberval & Saguenay Railway
RSM Railroad Switching Service of Missouri
RV Rahway Valley
SAL Seaboard Air Line
SB South Buffalo Railway
SBD Seaboard System Railroad
SBVR South Branch Valley Railroad
SCEX Southern California Edison
SCL Seaboard Coast Line
SCRF South Carolina Central Railroad
SCRX Santa Clarita Railway
SCTR South Central Tennessee Railroad
SCXY St. Croix Valley Railroad
SDIV San Diego & Imperial Valley
SDIY San Diego & Imperial Valley Railroad
SDWG South Dakota Wheat Growers
SECX Southeast Coal (GE Railcar Services)
SEMT Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority
SEPT Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
SERA Sierra Railroad
SFBR San Francisco Belt Railroad
SGVY Saginaw Valley Railway
SH Steelton & Highspire Railroad
SKOL South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad
SL Salt Lake City Southern Railroad
SLAL South Plains Lamesa Railroad
SLC San Luis Central Railroad
SLSF St. Louis - San Francisco
SM St. Marys Railroad
SMA San Manuel Arizona Railroad
SMNR Southern Manitoba Railway
SMRR Sisseton Milbank Railroad
SMV Santa Maria Valley Railroad
SN Sacramento Northern Railway
SNCT Seattle & North Coast Railroad
SOO Soo Line Railroad
SOU Southern Railway
SP Southern Pacific
SPS Spokane, Portland & Seattle
SQVR Sequatchie Valley Railroad
SRN Sabine River & Northern Railroad
SRY Southern Rail Link
SSDK Savannah State Docks Railroad
SSOR Sisseton Southern Railway
SSTX Simpson Timber
SSW St. Louis Southwestern
ST ST Rail System
ST Springfield Terminal Railway
STE Stockton Terminal & Eastern Railroad
STER St. Thomas and Eastern Railway
STMA St. Maries River Railroad
SWGR Seagraves, Whiteface & Lubbock Railroad
SWP Southwestern Pennsylvania Railroad
SWPX Southwestern Portland Cement
TAG Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad
TCG Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend Railroad
TCRC Tri-City Railroad
TCWR Twin Cities & Western Railroad
TE Tacoma Eastern Railway
THB Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
TM Texas Mexican Railway
TMBL Tacoma Municipal Belt Line
TMRW Tacoma Rail
TNER Texas Northeastern Railroad
TNMR Texas-New Mexico Railroad
TNO Texas & New Orleans Raiload
TOE Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad
TOR RaiLink Canada
TOV Tooele Valley Railway
TP Texas & Pacific Railway
TPW Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
TRC Trona Railway
TS Tidewater Southern Railway
TSRR Tennessee Southern Railroad
TSWR Toppenish Simcoe & Western Railroad
TTIS Transkentucky Transportation Railroad
TWRY Tradewater Railway
TYBR Tyburn Railroad
UCIR Union County Industrial Railroad
UMP Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad
UO Union Railroad of Oregon
UP Union Pacific Railroad
URR Union Railroad
UTAH Utah Railway
VAMD Virginia & Maryland
VB Van Buren Bridge
VCRR Ventura County Railroad
VCY Ventura County Railway
VIA VIA Rail
VR Valdosta Railway
VS Valley & Siletz Railroad
VSO Valdosta Southern Railroad
VSRR Virginia Southern Railroad
VTR Vermont Railway
WA Western Railway of Alabama
WAB Wabash Railway
WAMX Webb Asset Management (WATCO)
WC Wisconsin Central
WCLR Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad
WCRC Washington Central Railroad
WCTR WCTU Railway
WE Wheeling & Lake Erie
WGCR Wiregrass Central Railroad
WGR Willamina & Grand Ronde Railway
WHRC Windsor & Hantsport Railway
WIM Washington, Idaho & Montana Railway
WKRL Western Kentucky Railway
WOHO Wabash & Ohio Railroad
WP Western Pacific
WPRR Willamette & Pacific Railway
WPY White Pass and Yukon Route
WRWK Warwick Railway
WSOR Wisconsin & Southern Railroad
WSYP White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone Park Railway
WTCX Weyerhaeuser Company
WTLR West Texas & Lubbock Railroad
WTNN West Tennessee Railroad
WTSE West Shore Railroad
WVR Willamette Valley Railway
WVRC Wabash Valley Railroad
WVRD Willamette Valley Railroad
WWV Walla Walla Valley Railway
WYCO Wyoming & Colorado Railroad
YS Youngstown & Southern Railway
YSLR Yolo Shortline Railroad
YVT Yakima Valley Transportation Company
YW Yreka Western Railroad
 
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