Initialis???

[Anonymous]

Can somebody tell me if there is a central sorce one can go to find what the initalis on rolling stock stands for???? I understand the obvious "ie" GN- Greatnorthern, NYC-New York Central, but what about MPCX, EORX, GATX,
SDRX etc.,etc.?????? Thanks to all that answer!!!!!!
"The Harven"

[Texas Zepher]

There are bunches of them. Just go to an internet seach engine and search for "railroad reporting marks", or even just list a few railroad abbeviations. Seems like there are so many of them they get in the way when trying to hunt up other information about the railroads.
Some examples:
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-aar-reporting-marks-m
http://www.railfan.net/railpix/text/repmks.txt
http://www.hrtrains.com/rdname.html
http://freight.railfan.ca/mark.html
http://cta.ornl.gov/transnet/wconv.txt

SDRX is Sinclair
EORX is City Service
MPCX is two things - Moyer Packing Company; Michels Pipeline Construction, Inc.
GATX is General American Marks Company, GATX Corporation