Activities
When discussing different trains and train companies, a person had to be knowledgeable of the acronyms that identified each train. You may recognize the more familiar acronyms if you’ve ever played a game of Monopoly, but there are virtually hundreds of railroad companies with hundreds of different acronyms. Look at the list in the following table to see whether you can find a pattern on how acronyms were assigned. Then write the acronyms of the railroads listed in the second table.
Railroad |
Acronym |
Union Pacific |
UP |
New York and Lake Erie |
NY&LE |
North Western Pacific |
NWP |
Birmingham and Southern |
BS |
Southern Freight Railroad |
SFR |
Can you figure out the acronyms for these?
Railroad |
Acronym |
Minnesota , Dakota& Western (three letters) |
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San Diego Northern Railroad (three letters) |
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Tennessee Southern Railroad (four letters) |
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Southern Buffalo (two letters) |
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Colorado & Wyoming (two letters) |
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Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad (four letters) |
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Burlington Northern and Santa Fe (four letters) |
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South Kansas & Oklahoma (four letters) |
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Montana Rail Link (three letters) |
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Willamette and Pacific Railroad (four letters) |
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