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Title: NS220 With TFM 1617 On The Point
Post by: NSSpike on July 05, 2014, 03:22:07 PM

Today's NS220 on the Alabama East End had the TFM 1617 lead through Douglasville Georgia. MP658.4

(https://www.jreb.org/ns/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1175.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr630%2FNSSpike%2FRails70514220TFM_zps10c1985c.jpg&hash=f977e1548ab20cf970819ee71a439e2dca996fa2)

Title: Re: NS220 With TFM 1617 On The Point
Post by: Bill Richardson on July 05, 2014, 10:30:28 PM

I give up. What is TFM?

Title: Re: NS220 With TFM 1617 On The Point
Post by: Michael Knight on July 05, 2014, 11:47:00 PM

is Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (or TFM)

Here is some more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Southern_de_M%C3%A9xico

Title: Re: NS220 With TFM 1617 On The Point
Post by: Bill Richardson on July 06, 2014, 11:50:56 AM

Thanks for the info. I didn't know about that RR, and that KCS had any affiliation down there. I keep seeing new road names on here, new to me. There are so many names, old and new.

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