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The Standard Carrier Alpha Code, a two-to-four letter identification, is used by the transportation industry to identify freight carriers in computer systems and shipping documents such as Bill of Lading, Freight Bill, Packing List, and Purchase Order.
A 1966 study by the Stanford Research Institute found that it cost the Southern Pacific $18.41 to transport a passenger on the Coast Daylight between Los Angeles and San Francisco (equivalent to $178 in 2024), roughly twice that of air or bus service. Reasons given included the labor-intensiveness of rail service, and the fact that a single ...
A A&TWF – Acquisition and technology work force a – Army AA – Assembly area AA – Anti-aircraft AA – Aegis ashore AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A" AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAC – Army Air Corps AAD – Armored amphibious dozer AADC – Area air defense commander AAE – Army acquisition executive AAG – Anti-aircraft gun AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US ...
The Seattle–San Diego train became the Coast Daylight/Starlight (#11-12) northbound and Coast Starlight/Daylight (#13-14) southbound. [7] Both trains were cut back from San Diego to Los Angeles in April 1972, replaced by a third San Diegan. [8] On June 10, 1973, Amtrak began running the combined Coast Daylight/Starlight daily for the summer ...
No. 4449's replica builder's plate and American Freedom Train plaque. No. 4449 was the last member of the Southern Pacific Railroad's (SP) first order of GS-4 locomotives. No. 4449 was placed into service on May 30, 1941, and spent its early career assigned to the Coast Daylight, Southern Pacific's premier passenger train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, but it also pulled ...
If the pick-up failed on the first attempt due to weather, subsequent efforts to make the same pick-up were put on under the same operational name. By 1942 a routine had developed for putting together an operation. A resistance group would request a pick-up, choose a landing ground and provide a detailed description and map reference to London.
The Coast Daylight at San Jose in 1970 Aerial view of Diridon station and vicinity in 2018. A rail station at this location was established in 1878, when the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad opened their San Jose Depot on the site. When Southern Pacific gained control of the railroad in 1887, the station was folded into the system and ...
3344 was T-boned by a pickup truck near Moody Centre Station on September 12, 2018. [20] 2006 NFI D40LFR Cummins ISL; Allison WB-400R6; Diesel 7447–7499, 7501–7504 (57) 2007 NovaBus: LFS: Cummins ISL; ZF 6HP592C; Diesel 9601–9699, 9701–9725 (124) 9621 crashed into a Salvation Army in New Westminster in 2008. [21] 2007–2008 OBI: V (05. ...