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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon May 23 03:20:00 2022, in response to Re: Guess The Location...easy peasey (maybe), posted by AlM on Sat May 21 12:13:16 2022. About terminology. So I have been an electrician for nearly half a century. The common plug/outlet in your wall is technically a duplex receptacle. And it was in fact an MD that I helped raise (kind of an extra uncle) who gave me grief about using the trade jargon rather than the common coivilian terms when speaking to customers. I took his advice.As to geographic v. "official" directions, I have, I believe noted two peculiarities before on this list. First, within the RR world, because RRs need consistency, each 'division' has defined directionality. Trains crossing divisional borders change numbers to conform to division schemes. Most comically, Southern Pacific in its arrogance considered San Francisco the center of the universe. So a train from Portland to Oakland (w/ferry connections to SF) was a westbound. In the case of the Amtrak Coast Starlight, it was WB Portland to Oakland where it assumed an EB # as it headed to LA. PRR PTTs showed NY-Wash trains as WB or EB, yet in their regional PTT listing trains from NYC south to Florida, New Orleans,etc, are shown as SB and NB. It is also the inconvenient practice in Boston to use "Inbound" and "Outbound" but on the Red Line these swap in the downtown area. So signage is less than useful to a visitor. Other major examples are in the Interstate Highway numbering systems. Here in the Bay Area we have a segment co-designated I 80 EB and I 580 WB running N-S. Given that SubChat is a civilian rather than insider forum, Ibelieve using real world geographic directions can be combined with a note (RR SB, for example) |
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