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About Railfan Logs

About Railfan Logs

My railfan logs contain relatively detailed records of all trains I see and photograph. I have been keeping locomotive number information since I was eleven (in 1988) and train symbol information since approximately 1992. I have written several roster database programs to assist me in this task - the latest version is Railinfo 1.0 for Windows written using VisualBasic 4.0.

The information contained within these records is correct to the best of my knowledge. Some conventions I have used:

• Numbers such as this: #S42.11 or #P03.23-26 are photgraph catalog numbers (you may notice that most of my images have these for filenames). #S means slide (usually Kodachrome 64) and #P represents a print of some kind.
• When a digit is missing from a locomotive number, replace it with an X: 67x3.
• In most cases I have all locomotive numbers in a consist recorded. The two-digit number (one of the middle columns) represents the place of that locomotive in the power consist: 03 is the third engine. Sometimes the first digit will be replaced with a letter; C represents a rail car (not an engine) and P represents pusher or helper engines.
• An entry enclosed in brackets [] is a reported entry - either by sight (with no engine numbers) or by radio.
• At the right end of a locomotive listing, you might see former owner initials. If these are enclosed in parentheses () the locomotive was painted in that paint scheme. Otherwise the initials simply represent former owner. Parentheses can be used to show commemorative paint schemes: (OLYM) - Olympic, (OL) Operation Lifesaver (CR Q) Conrail Quality, etc.
• For occasions when I only had a partial train symbol, the unknown part is represented by zeros or underscores (when a numeric portion) or lowercase x when alphabetic.
• Special Note: Locomotives painted in CPRS Dual Flags scheme have CPRS reporting marks. Locomotives purchased since the CPRS name (ex-NS, ex-GATX, etc) also have CPRS reporting marks. CP Pac-Man and related schemes have CP marks. In retrospect I should have been more specific when taking that info...

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This page was created and maintained by J. Alex Lang, © 1997.
Last updated March 9, 1997