Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!friedman From: friedman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: New Hope and Ivyland Message-ID: <20600029@uiucdcs> Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 17:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.20600029 Posted: Mon Dec 23 17:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Dec-85 02:01:08 EST References: <851@brl-tgr.ARPA> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr.ARPA:851:uiucdcs:20600029:000:660 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!friedman Dec 23 16:01:00 1985 Burton.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA suggests some "interesting" RR acroynyms. Here in central Illinois, there was a line built about 1870 called the Indianapolis Bloomington and Western (Bloomington, IL). Local wags in the 1870s and 1880s were said to have renamed it the I Better Walk. (The line is now a part of Conrail.) H. George Friedman, Jr. Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 West Springfield Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 USENET: ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4,convex}!uiucdcs!friedman CSNET: friedman%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa ARPA: friedman@uiuc.arpa