Acronyms, Abbreviations & Terms Used in OGR Forums

rtr12 posted:

List of Acronyms & Terms Frequently used on OGR Forums

To anyone using acronyms on the ORG Forums, a suggestion to help us all:

Before using an acronym don't always assume acronyms you use are well known to all.
Worst of all, many train acronyms are not easy to look up. (eg: the first match for TMCC
on Google is for Truckee Meadows Community College). Please spell out abbreviations for
the first use and resort to an acronym thereafter.

This list has grown much larger than first anticipated! To all that have helped with this list,
I wouldn't have known a lot of these without your help, Thank You!

As that guy in the tights says "Holy C#@$  Batman"

You have a great start and the additions are still coming!

How about we write clear concise posts and keep the abbreviations to a minimum.

if I have to guess what something means I'll just pass it buy.

Dave

david1 posted:

How about we write clear concise posts and keep the abbreviations to a minimum.

if I have to guess what something means I'll just pass it buy.

Dave

Like those "Vanity" license plates no one understands?

Continental United States - CONUS

LIITOGST

Leave it in the other guys septic tank

Gary

Mark Boyce posted:

Arthur P. Bloom posted:

"POTS - Plain Old Telephone Set (Just for Fun - We'll see if anyone notices?)"

 

This plain old telephone man noticed. It's actually "plain old telephone SERVICE," and it's an actual RBOC / LEC term. (Regional Bell Operating Company / Local Exchange Carrier).

 

POTS, as opposed to PANS, which is "Pretty Amazing New Stuff" referring to optical fiber packet transmission, for example.

Dan Padova posted:

I dislike acronyms almost as much as I abhor graffiti.....

Having started my career in telecommunications 41 years ago, POTS caught my eye.  I agree with Arthur.

Also having been around too long.   I agree with Dan, I hate acronyms as much as graffiti, and that is an awful lot.

However, we are stuck with acronyms, so I commend you RTR12 for starting this list off.  There are some I certainly did not know.

RTR!@ = what ?

To all the recent posters and their comments,

Thanks for the additions, and the kind words! I think I have them all added in without messing anything else up.

Dave Garmin,

I am familiar with FUBAR and SNAFU, but never seen the term 'Fouled' used with those before? I think Rich will be OK with them in that form! 

Dan Padova,

Rtr12 is me!! My handle, moniker, forum name or whatever they call these things?? Actually Rtr12 = Tom (or Thomas - my legal name). And I don't care for these much either, but I am also guilty of using them from time to time (and not identifying things first). I worked for a large company for 20 years that had so many Acronyms they actually put out a company manual named 'Acronyms and Terms'. None of the employees knew them all either, reason for the manual!! The employees had fun with that one.

Thanks again to all for the extra additions.

This can really start going sideways quickly.  Too much work for a hobby.

Part of my life is tripping through government run health care client guide lines which is loaded with acronyms which lazy writers, who seem to be asserting impressive knowledge,  just assume others know.  It falls flat for me.

As far as I am  concerned it may as well be  a code.

Effective communication is clearly  conveying knowledge.

I certainly can't argue with that! This list is getting a bit long and I sometimes wonder if anyone ever uses it?? Probably still missing a ton of things too, but I try to add new ones as I see them around here.

After a few years it finally registered to copy the idea from others and add it to my tag line, sign off or whatever they call it these days. Just thinking it might help at least a few folks around here and at least maybe make it easier to find.

ZW-C should probably point out the Lionel Manufacturer Number (Lionel 6-32930).

Same for the ZW-L (Lionel 6-37921)

Should add an entry for the ZW-R, ZW (R), or ZW Model R - natural evolution of the ZW - most notably uses 18V (#1445) indicator lamps instead of 6V (#51).

It boils my blood when someone calls a ZW-C or ZW-L a ZW - they aren't!

Thanks for clearing up a few abbreviations for me!

One that might be added is NKP,  for the Nickel Plate Road, which is all too commonly abbreviated as "NPR" which AFAIK stands for National Public Radio.

WTF, think you've got most of them covered except WTF.   

I'm pretty sure that was on the list at one time. Rich helped me with the editing and formatting when I first started working on it and posted it here. There were a couple of things that didn't quite make the cut. 

That is also one of my favorites!

If you like acronyms, deal with the military...all three major services have their own jargon..unintelligible to outsiders...l have sat in meetings where l was speaking "Sanskrit" and they were speaking "Navajo".

I wish that you forumites would spell things out. I hate that when you use initials.

Here's one missing. I had to go to a slang dictionary as the usual meaning didn't fit......  ISO

"International Standards Organization" is the one most folks here would know.

OR

"In Search Of" -   which means "wanted" I guess   (wtb wft is what I'd expect)

Adriatic posted:

Here's one missing. I had to go to a slang dictionary as the usual meaning didn't fit......  ISO

"International Standards Organization" is the one most folks here would know.

OR

"In Search Of" -   which means "wanted" I guess   (wtb wft is what I'd expect)

 

Added, Thanks

Jsulli21 posted:

KMA. As in KMA club

when you have enough years and age to retire.

and you then can tell your boss to Kiss My A..

life long membership attained.

Good idea and I like it, but I don't think the moderators would take kindly to it.

eddie g posted:

I wish that you forumites would spell things out. I hate that when you use initials.

That was one reason I made this list, along with the requests/complaints from others in a couple of other threads.

I was also one of the ones that didn't know too many of these.

It took me years to figure what ISO meant here on the Forum.  Of course I recognized right away it wasn’t International Standards Organization.