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RE: (erielack) Re: EL Consists
We'll be updating the ELHS site in the near future with a full complement of
telegraph symbols and some additional details.
For now, here are all the different types of commodities:
AUTOEQU: Automotive equipment - cars, parts, etc.
CHEMPRO: Chemical products
COKE: Coke (what a surprise! :)
FARMPRO: Farm products - animal feed, etc.
FRUTVEG: Fruits and/or vegetables
GRAIN: Edible whole grains
GRAINML: Milled grains - flour, starch, corn syrup
IROSTEL: Iron or steel
MACHINRY: Machinery of all kinds
MEATPAC: Processed meat products - dressed beef, tallow, etc.
MERCHSE: General merchanise
NOMETMN: Non-metallic minerals - talc, lime, etc.
OTHFOOD: Food besides fruits/vegetables/grain
PETROPR: Petrochemical products (tar, oil, etc.)
PULPAPER: Paper-related products (newsprint, paperboard, paper pulp, etc.)
SCRPWST: Scrap waste of all sorts (paper, steel, you name it)
STONGLA: Stone or glass products (marble, glass bottles, etc.)
WOODPRO: Wood products (dimensional lumber, plywood, etc.)
- Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Brezicki [mailto:doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 6:16 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net; llyengalyn@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: EL Consists
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> NOMETMIN: Non-metallic minerals
>
> IROSTEL: Iron and steel Products
>
> EL used variations of the standard AAR nomenclature for several
categories,
> eg: IROSTEL for "Metals and products"; AUTOEQU for "Motor vehicles and
> equipment". EL also used several that were not listed by AAR, eg: MEATPRO
> for meat products including liquefied tallow.
>
> It is very gratifying to see the consist project being used in the manner
for
> which it was intended.
>
> Paul B
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:43:09 -0500
>
> From: Bradley Butcher <llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: EL Consists
>
>
>
> OK how about this. Commodity listed on a covered hopper "nometmn"?
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> Or "irostel" on a DF boxcar. Or D for equipped.
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>
> Joe Mayer <jmayer_@_insight.rr.com> wrote:
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> The discussion of consist sheets prodded me into going back and working on
> getting some more into Excel. I thought I would share a great example of
the
> typos that could creep into these. I would say this was a keypunch
operator
> error, and not just the reader.
>
>
>
> This car was on DN97, headed from Marion to Dayton, in Dec 1975. (By the
> way, plenty of SOU and LN cars passing back and forth to/from the EL via
this
> connection!):
>
> 1EL 68689 LB @87 GRAINMLBHATSANOOTEQUAKEROATS SOU CI. OK, this is
> EL combo-door boxcar 68689 loaded with grain, to be interchanged to the
> SOU in Cincinnati headed for Quaker Oats in CHATTANOOGA TN! So
> BHATSANOO is Chattanooga. There were other cars headed to General Mills
> in Chattanooga in the same train, and I was able to verify that at least
into the
> late 1980's Quaker Oats did have a facility there.
>
>
>
> So- consist reader beware!
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>
>
> Joe Mayer
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> ELHS 702
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