Abbreviation quiz
Here are the answers. Some of these may have more than one meaning (a/c and WB
come to mind), depending on the context in which they are used, so I picked
only one, you may say the more obscure.
a/c= account
A1= first class (freight rate when using "class" rates instead of "commodity"
rates)
AFE= authority for expenditure
B/A= billed at
BK= break (used by telegraphers to tell the senders to stop transmitting)
BO= bad order
Bsk= basket
Bx= box
C&E= conductor and engineer
COTS= cleaned, oiled, tested and stenciled (I threw this one in after someone
mentioned it)
Jct= junction
Jt= joint
K= standard clock
K.D.= knocked down (and K.D.F. was knocked down flat)
Ld= load
LFVC= loaded to full visible capacity ( this is an outgrowth of a rule by the
Office of Defense Transportation during WWII, that open top cars be "loaded to
full visible capacity" and the rule stayed in effect for many years after the
war)
MT= empty
NES= not elsewhere specified
NOIBN= not otherwise indexed by name
Ntfy= notify
O= track scale (interesting since there is not one "O" in "track scale")
OS= on sheet
OS&D= over, short and damaged
P.H.P. packing house products
RIP= repair in place
Rpt= report
Sk= sack
S.U.= set up
W&F= water and feed(way bill direction as to location to feed and water
livestock)
W/C= way car
WB= waybill (and its brother BL= bill of lading)
WW&IB= Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau
There is one that only Southern Illinois coal field railroaders used. GMOT =
green marked oil treated. It was used on waybills from the Old Ben Coal
Corporation mines.
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