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28-702: Railway in Pennsylvania, the United States Delaware Valley Railway Overview Reporting mark DV Locale Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Dates of operation 1994–1999 Predecessor Octoraro Railroad Successor Brandywine Valley Railroad Technical Track gauge 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge The Delaware Valley Railway ( reporting mark DV )

56-695: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

84-464: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

112-700: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

140-685: Is the sole user of the ex-PRR south of CP-GRAVITY in Buffalo. BPRR operates two key secondary lines. One runs between Erie and Johnsonburg along the former Allegheny & Eastern Railroad . Another is made up of former Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad tracks, running from the Armstrong Power Plant in Reesedale, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Pennsylvania . The B&P also operates on the Low Grade between DuBois and Driftwood that

168-1001: The Brandywine Valley Railroad in Modena. The Delaware Valley Railway took over operations of these lines from the Octoraro Railroad on July 1, 1994. In 1999, the Delaware Valley Railway ceased operations, with the Brandywine Valley Railroad taking over operations of these lines. These lines are currently operated by the East Penn Railroad . References [ edit ] [REDACTED] Railways portal ^ STB (1999-06-10). "Certificate of Designated Operator, Brandywine Valley Railroad Company." Decision no. STB D-OP No. 100. See footnote 1 in

196-886: The P&;W Subdivision to the B&;P between Allison Park and the New Castle Yard in West Pittsburg , just outside New Castle, PA . Though the B&P ends in Allison Park, the railroad rarely traverses the line down to the borough. Instead, it transfers its goods to the AVR either in Evans City or Bakerstown depending on the amount of freight it has. Other owned and operated branch lines travel to Homer City , St Marys , and Brookville, Pennsylvania , as well as to

224-513: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

252-609: The Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, New York . Operations began in 1988 over mostly former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (formerly Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway ) lines. In the early 2000s, the BPRR merged other GWI railroads into it. These lines include the Allegheny & Eastern Railroad (ALY), Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad (PSR), and the Bradford Industrial Railroad (BR). Around 2005

280-743: The Indiana Subdivision, which had been out of use, was rehabilitated to serve the Homer City Generating Station . Shortly after this, the Ridge Subdivision, which had seen a Norfolk Southern coal train run-through to Shelocta was sold off to NS. In 2006, the railroad was honored as the Regional Railroad of the Year by Railway Age magazine. The BPRR fleet, as of April 2024, consists of

308-599: The Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

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336-5062: The STB certificate. ^ Beideman, Don (July 31, 1994). "New Operator Keeps Shipments On Track The Delaware Valley Railway Takes Over The Octoraro's Lines" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . Archived from the original on September 19, 2015 . Retrieved April 15, 2013 . ^ East Penn Railroad Map (PDF) (Map). DeskMap Systems. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 1, 2012 . Retrieved December 12, 2011 . v t e Railroads of Pennsylvania Common carriers Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad Allegheny Valley Railroad Belvidere and Delaware River Railway Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad Brandywine Valley Railroad Canadian Pacific Kansas City Chestnut Ridge Railroad Central New York Railroad Columbia and Reading Railway CSX Transportation Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Eastern Berks Gateway Railroad East Erie Commercial Railroad East Penn Railroad Everett Railroad Gettysburg and Northern Railroad Juniata Valley Railroad Kasgro Rail Lines Kiski Junction Railroad Lehigh Railway Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway Landisville Railroad Lehigh Valley Rail Management: Bethlehem Division Lycoming Valley Railroad Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad McKeesport Connecting Railroad Maryland Midland Railway Mittal Steel Railways Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad New Castle Industrial Railroad NDC Railroad New Hope Railroad New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Norfolk Southern Railway North Shore Railroad Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad Pennsylvania and Southern Railway Pennsylvania Southwestern Railroad Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad R.J. Corman Railroad/Allentown Lines R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines Stourbridge Railroad Steelton and Highspire Railroad SMS Rail Lines Strasburg Rail Road Shamokin Valley Railroad Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad Towanda–Monroeton Shippers Lifeline Tyburn Railroad Union County Industrial Railroad Upper Merion and Plymouth Railroad Union Railroad Wellsboro and Corning Railroad Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad York Railway Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad Passenger carriers Amtrak NJ Transit Rail Operations SEPTA Regional Rail Private carriers Cumberland Mine Railroad EASX Railroad Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad Heritage railroads Allentown and Auburn Railroad Colebrookdale Railroad Duquesne Incline East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company Electric City Trolley Museum Fayette Central Railroad Johnstown Inclined Plane Kiski Junction Railroad Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad Monongahela Incline New Hope Railroad Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad Pioneer Lines Scenic Railway Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Rockhill Trolley Museum Strasburg Rail Road Tioga Central Railroad West Chester Railroad Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad See also: Former carriers in Pennsylvania List of United States railroads by political division v t e Railroads of Delaware Common carriers Conrail Shared Assets Operations CSX Transportation Delmarva Central Railroad East Penn Railroad Maryland and Delaware Railroad Norfolk Southern Railway Wilmington and Western Railroad Passenger carriers Amtrak SEPTA Regional Rail Heritage railroads Wilmington and Western Railroad See also: Former carriers in Delaware List of United States railroads by political division Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delaware_Valley_Railway&oldid=1254588888 " Categories : Defunct Delaware railroads Defunct Pennsylvania railroads Railway companies disestablished in 1999 Railway companies established in 1994 RailAmerica Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Reporting mark In North America ,

364-682: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

392-541: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

420-672: The city center via the Allegheny Valley Railroad . The system runs largely on former Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) lines. The entire BPRR system is 728 miles (1,172 km). Major commodities carried include paper, petroleum products, chemicals, coal, steel, and sand. The Buffalo-Eidenau main line passes through Salamanca, NY , Bradford, PA , Johnsonburg, PA , DuBois, PA , Punxsutawney, PA , and Butler, PA . Principal rail yards are located at Butler, Punxsutawney (Riker), and Buffalo , with support yards for local industry at other locations. B&P initially used

448-411: The direct former B&O/BR&P main between Buffalo and Salamanca, but during the 1990s a failing bridge at Springville, New York forced the railroad to detour its trains north of Ashford Junction via the former Rochester & Southern track to Machias Junction, New York, thence north on Conrail 's/ Norfolk Southern 's ex- Pennsylvania Railroad Buffalo Line to Buffalo. Buffalo & Pittsburgh now

476-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

504-529: The home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for the North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of

532-415: The mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating

560-572: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

588-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

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616-529: The railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with the letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example, the TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example,

644-548: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad ( reporting mark BPRR ) is a Class II railroad operating in New York and Pennsylvania . The BPRR is owned by Genesee & Wyoming . Its main line runs between Buffalo, New York , and Eidenau, Pennsylvania , north of Pittsburgh . Here, connections are made to

672-762: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

700-656: The reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns the equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses the reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns

728-517: Was a short-line railroad in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States . The railroad was owned by RailAmerica . The Delaware Valley Railway operated two lines: one running from Elsmere, Delaware north to Modena, Pennsylvania and one running from Sylmar, Pennsylvania to Wawa, Pennsylvania . The railroad interchanged with CSX Transportation in Elsmere and

756-1145: Was formerly used by the Pennsylvania Railroad , then Conrail . A portion of the former B&O Northern Subdivision is used to provide access to Petrolia, PA . There are many interchanges in BPRR. The Canadian National Railway has interchanges at Buffalo, New York and Butler, Pennsylvania . Canadian Pacific Kansas City has an interchange at Buffalo, New York . CSX Transportation has interchanges at Buffalo, New York , Erie, Pennsylvania . and New Castle, Pennsylvania . Norfolk Southern Railway has interchanges in Buffalo, Erie, Driftwood, Pennsylvania , Freeport, Pennsylvania , and Pittsburgh . Rochester & Southern Railroad and Buffalo Southern Railroad also each have one interchange at Buffalo, New York . Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad have one at East Salamanca, New York. Allegheny Valley Railroad also has one, located in Allison Park, Pennsylvania . Lastly, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway has one in Bruceton, Pennsylvania . CSX Transportation leases

784-580: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

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