NS AFE Numbers

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Fri Apr 4 23:23:25 EDT 2008


Norfolk Southern uses a system where the first two digits are the year the
AFE is cut and the last four are the sequential number of the AFE. They can
be for anything across the system. Kind of a step backward.

Larry Stanley
N&W Ry (or NS as THEY call it)
peerless at zoomnet.net

>

> Sometime after the '64 merger, there were so many AFE's

> being issued that the N&W came up with a modified

> zip code method of numbering. The first two digits identified

> the district for the project and the last three digits WERE

> the AFE number. AFE's starting with "34" might cover

> improvements on the Blue Ridge District, for example.

> Harry Bundy

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