FSAC, SPLC and OPSL abbreviations - Trains Magazine

Thanks, Bob. I know you have some sort of railroad connection, so what is yours in this area of knowledge?

Ah, yes. I remember now about this just being brought on-line about 10 years ago or so when I left active railroading. Well, if it's worth anything, my original guess was Standard Place Location Code. It was close.[:I][bow]

I don't ever remember having to use it. The system we were using at the time was the ICC Billing Road Code (721 for SP) and then the roads station number. So, Eugene, Oregon, was 721-03858. This system was used for Origin, Destination and Interchange station numbers. OGDUP (Ogden, Utah, Union Pacific) would have used the UP's BRC and Ogdens station number. I don't recall exactly, but I think UP's BRC is 802, so when we input OGDUP into the route, the computer saw it as 802-10000. Arcane stuff that probably is not used anymore.