The Hot Q-LACAUG piggyback from Los Angeles, CA-Austell, GA? I know someone/anyone has to know where I can get this info? Can you call somewhere/someone to get the trains assignment name, where it's coming from and where it's going or do I need a scanner? Are these assignments givel to intermodel/piggyback and freight only? Or are they givey to coal and grain unit trains also? This would halp me identify the traffisc that travels up/down the BNSF Raton Sub through Wagon Mound, NM. Thanks for ANY help.
Sammy, you can go to the qstation web site and find what you are looking for the there. Click on the BNSF resource and then scroll down to infomation sites. There is line that says Symbol guide and click on that. That will give you the symbols as to what you are looking for. Also If you listening to road channels they do not go by these symbols they go by the actual lead loco number. When they get to the yard this is when they use those symbols. It might be different in other areas but this is how they do it around Galesburg, IL. I hope this link works if not try what I decribed above: http://www.qstation.org/bnsf/bnsfsymbols.html
The qstation guide is basicly correct, with 2 exceptions. The eighth character is not priority but section number. So if the railroad ran two trains, HPASKCK (High Priority Freight Pasco, WA to Kansas City, KS) on the 30th of the month the first one would be H PASKCK1 30A the second one would be H PASKCK2 30A. The other thing is that on Coal unit trains (and emptys) the last three numbers are the number of trains of that route they have run this year. So the first Eagle Butte mine, WY to North Port Jct., NE train of the year would be C EBMNPJ0 01A. Also the list of stations on qstation is not complete. Adam
