Mileposts

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Tue Apr 4 08:45:43 EDT 2006


Thanks for the information Bill. I think I have been using 'milepost' but intend to concentrate on using it.
Charlie Long

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>Subject: Mileposts

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>I suppose this is nit-picking, but the use of the term "mile marker", which is

>a direct influence of the Interstate Highway System has no place on a

>railroad. In all of my years of copying train orders, as an operator, and

>using them on line-of-road, I have never seen a train dispatcher refer to

>a railroad milepost as a "mile marker." The simple abbreviation "MP" was

>used to designate the word "milepost." As a practical matter, I never have

>understood why the Interstate Highways use the longer two name version

>"mile marker" rather than the simple one word "milepost." They could have

>then educated the public to use the term "MP" when referring to a location

>on the Interstate. But, the system is already screwed up and it's too late to

>change it. I would have gone a little further and designed a system in which

>an exact location such as MP 325.8 could be pinpointed. If a motorist

>was stranded he or she could give exact information as to where they were

>located. But, what do I know. Bill Sellers.

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