Reporting mark help requested

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:42 pm

If anyone out there has access to an issue of a Railway Equipment Register, Pocket List of RR officials, or other "official" publication that lists reporting marks, and can find a listing for the Illinois Railway Museum, which lists reporting mark "IRYM", I'd appreciate knowing the publication, issue, and page number, for reference purposes at Wikipedia.

Jeff

1702 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:01 am

Jeff,

Railinc Corp., a subsidiary of AAR, issues Railroad Standard Carrier Alpha Codes (a.k.a. "reporting marks") for all railroads and private owners in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
A search of their database at http://tinyurl.com/ydb5d2j shows no assignment for the marks "IRYM".

If the Museum were to apply to Railinc for a reporting mark, the mark assigned would end in "X", as the Museum isn't a common-carrier railroad.

Jim Tatum.

Rob Sundberg · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:06 am

He's not talking about a current listing. He needs to know if at some point in the past that these marks were used and registered as such. Read his post as I'm sure he has done his homework with current information.
Jdelhaye, I will check my 1986 RER.
Rob

SZuiderveen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:40 am

IRYM is an FRA "railroad mark", but not all FRA railroad marks have corresponding AAR/UMLER reporting marks.

Sometime in the last five years I saw a list of reporting marks that included dates when a given mark began and ended, plus a few that had more than one owner over their life. Now I just need to remember where I saw that list.

Steve

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:57 am

Rob Sundberg wrote:

He's not talking about a current listing. He needs to know if at some point in the past that these marks were used and registered as such. Read his post as I'm sure he has done his homework with current information.
Jdelhaye, I will check my 1986 RER.
Rob

...Oh I KNOW they were used...I just need the reference to prove it, and a picture of equipment with IRYM marks isn't quite adequate.

Jeff

1702 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:27 am

SZuiderveen wrote:

IRYM is an FRA "railroad mark", but not all FRA railroad marks have corresponding AAR/UMLER reporting marks.

Sometime in the last five years I saw a list of reporting marks that included dates when a given mark began and ended, plus a few that had more than one owner over their life. Now I just need to remember where I saw that list.

Steve

Possibly this site? http://www.nakina.net/other/report/report.html

Jim Tatum.

kenC · **Joined:** Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:10 pm **Posts:** 8

Maybe this well be of some help,

FRA Guide for Preparing
Accidents/Incidents Reports
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
Office of Safety
DOT/FRA/RRS-22 Effective: January 1997 also Effective: May 1, 2003

Appendix A Railroad Codes
1997 pg 144
INPR Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad Company
IRYM Illinois Railway Museum
IMRR Illinois & Midland Railroad Inc.

2003 pg 175
IR Illinois Railnet Inc.
IRYM Illinois Rwy Museum
ILW Illinois Western RR Co.

If you can not locate (PM) and I can send PDFs

KenC