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Here's a handy link for searching reporting marks:
https://www.railinc.com/findusrail/pub/mark/search.do?fwd=init
Stan
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I have ex-NS 1379, 1385 at some point being "GET" 1379, 1385 (reporting mark for Gettysburg RR) prior to entering the NRE program and turning into BNSF 2017-2018.
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When I enter "GTI" it comes up empty ..... Imagine That !
Could be that GTI is not a registered road mark. Try searching GTI* or *Guilfird*. GTIS is the correct answer.
Stan via iPhone
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GTI would have been Guilford Transportation Industries, also using the initials MEC (Maine Central) BM (Boston and Maine) ST (Springfield Terminal) DH* (Delaware and Hudson) PTM (Portland Terminal Company) and GRS (Guilford Rail System) starting in 1981 until 2006 when the name was switched to Pan Am Railways (PAR.)
* Guilford purchased the D&H in 1981 but put it up for sale in 1988, being owned by the NYS&W (New York, Susquehanna and Western) which was then resold to Canadian Pacific in 1991. After GTI sold it in 1988, they no longer had rights to the DH reporting marks.
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Stan picked up on my point ..... GTI is not a registered mark and consequently should not be part of the lineage.
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Things are often created or turned around, and then take on a life of their own. Most people would know, although not correct, who GTI is. If someone were to use the correct GTIS, it would probably create more confusion.
Stan
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I've been doing a little digging around on the history of this one...and I'm trying to figure out what reporting marks it carried. The STB list BNSF 2016 as former GET 1385; nice..another piece of mis-information. There is a photo of MEC 1386 on here; so I'm wondering if GET 1385 was actually MEC 1385? Can't seem to find anything to support that yet...but it sure makes allot of sense.
Zack
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I never thought about GTI being Guilford, because Guilford (I thought) used the old reporting marks MEC, etc. - the same was FL is not an official reporting mark because Family Lines engines carried SCL, L&N, etc. reporting marks.
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NS 1379/1385 never had anything to do with Guilford/MEC.
NS 1386 became MEC 382 and was provided as a replacement for MEC 375 after NS wrecked that unit at Momence, IL 2005-11-24.
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NYSW never owned the DH,they were a interum operator until the CP was the sucessful bidder.
Several RR's including GTI bid for the DH.CSX helped NYSW by buying B40-8's and then leased them to NYSW.NS also helped by sending some C30 and SD40-2's until CP got posession.
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