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Posted by ccltrains on Thursday, February 11, 2021 2:23 PM

Perhaps they are using a variation of the Danish alphabet which has 28 letters.  In all of my travels to Copenhagen I could not pronounce a word or name with the extra letters.  One of the people I worked with name was 0/ygin with the 0/ to be the Greek letter phi. My initial stab at her name was Phygin.  She said it was Agin.  Oh well we are still friends even after I butchered her name.

 

 

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, February 8, 2021 5:30 PM

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Thanks, Larry. Now I don't have to search.

Had to check several sites before I found an explanation of that last digit.

My first thought had been that it was a check digit of some sort.

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Posted by MMLDelete on Monday, February 8, 2021 5:24 PM

Thanks, Larry. Now I don't have to search.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, February 8, 2021 5:17 PM

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NP Eddie
It stands for the day of the month that the train originated. All symbols may be explained on a search of BNSF train symbols.

 

So BNSF has figured a way to identify 31 days of a 'max month' with the 26 letters of the normal alphabet?????

 

What I found indicates that the eleventh character can have many different meanings regarding routing, contents, and a host of other variables.

Digits nine and ten are the day of the month.

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Posted by MMLDelete on Monday, February 8, 2021 5:13 PM

NP Eddie

It stands for the day of the month that the train originated. All symbols may be explained on a search of BNSF train symbols.

 

Actually not. Digits 9 and 10 comprise the date of the month the train originated. The 11th digit is a letter, and the key on the Trains chart omitted explaining that one.

I may do a web search, as you suggested.

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, February 8, 2021 4:50 PM

NP Eddie
It stands for the day of the month that the train originated. All symbols may be explained on a search of BNSF train symbols.

So BNSF has figured a way to identify 31 days of a 'max month' with the 26 letters of the normal alphabet?????

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Posted by NP Eddie on Monday, February 8, 2021 3:35 PM

It stands for the day of the month that the train originated. All symbols may be explained on a search of BNSF train symbols.

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Posted by MMLDelete on Monday, February 8, 2021 12:47 PM

GBSD70ACe

Yes.

 
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Does anyone ON THIS FORUM know what that last character stands for?
 
 
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Posted by GBSD70ACe on Monday, February 8, 2021 10:35 AM

Yes.

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Question re BNSF train symbols
Posted by Lithonia Operator on Sunday, February 7, 2021 11:25 PM

I enjoyed the article about the BNSF Southern Transcon in the Feb issue.

There is a chart showing all the trains in a 24 hr. period. It has a key explaining what the ten characters in the train symbols denote. However, there are actually ELEVEN characters. Each symbol ends with a letter as its 11th character. Does anyone know what that letter signifies?

Still in training.


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