Another naming issue is the labels. I want something that is relatively short, easy to remember, and just letters. The last criteria rules out CB&Q for the Burlington Route. But I wanted to use that instead of Burlington because it is shorter. So I'm adopting the convention of using a lower case "a" for an ampersand.
Update: In the beginning, most railroads I encountered touched Chicago. I started using rrMisc for those that didn't. Over the years, I started getting a lot of rrMisc railroads. So I started assigning labels to groups or types of railroads. In addition to 1928 railroad specific labels, I now have:
- rrAbandoned
- rrAmtrak
- rrAlphaEast RDG+CNJ+L&HR+NYNH&H, east part of the Alphabet Route.
- rrAlphaWest W&LE+P&LE+WM, west part of the Alphabet Route. (NKP is not included because it has its own label)
- rrBN Every railroad that became part of BN except CB&Q, which already had a label
- rrCanadian CN and CP. Later, I started using it for KCS as well.
- rrCaNW includes Minneapolis & St. Louis even though it wasn't acquired until 1960.
- rrCommuter This is a very new label so a lot of notes are missing it.
- rrEast east of the Appalachian Mountains except for DL&W, which uses rrErie because of their merger. Also excluded are the "Alphabet" railroads: RDG+CNJ+L&HR+NYNH&H+W&LE+P&LE+WM. For example, Boston & Maine, Boston & Albany, Maine Central and Delaware & Hudson.
- rrErie also includes Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
- rrFallen this is used for freight cars that still have a "Fallen Flag" railroad logo
- rrIndustrial very short lines that serve one or a few tightly grouped industry
- rrInterurban This also includes rapid transit ("L" & light rail) and streetcars
- rrLines The railroads that became the SCL and then the Seaboard System Railroad, except L&N, which has its own label. Notably ACL, SAL and Clinchfield
- rrNaW This includes the Virginian (VGN)
- rrNew Typically, a shortline
- rrOther will replace rrMisc for "none of the above" when I'm done partitioning the rrMisc label
- rrPanhandle and rrPennIndustrial rrPenn was becoming so ubiquitous that I divided that group.
- rrTerminal a terminal railroad such as the
- rrUPnew railroads that became part of today's UP except for UP and MoPac. Notably SP, DG&RW and Cotton Belt.
- rrTourist
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