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Date: 08/19/14 14:03
What is OSS?
Author: OHCR

I heard OSS on my scanner confirming a consist change (as I recall). What is OSS?

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Date: 08/19/14 15:20
Re: What is OSS?
Author: PowellWye

Operations and Service Support, located in Atlanta. Handles train consists and switch lists among other things.

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Date: 08/19/14 15:21
Re: What is OSS?
Author: hoydie17

PowellWye Wrote:
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> Operations and Service Support, located in
> Atlanta. Handles train consists and switch lists
> among other things.

Didn't that used to be the CYO? Central Yard Office?

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Date: 08/19/14 15:49
Re: What is OSS?
Author: 41bridge

Yes.

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Date: 08/19/14 16:29
Re: What is OSS?
Author: NKPSOUTHERN

I always thought it meant Office of Strategic Services. But then, it IS the NS we are talking about so it figures right??!! :^)

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Date: 08/19/14 16:37
Re: What is OSS?
Author: OHCR

Thnx

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Date: 08/20/14 07:40
Re: What is OSS?
Author: mkostecky

PowellWye Wrote:
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> Operations and Service Support, located in
> Atlanta. Handles train consists and switch lists
> among other things.

During WW2 it was the Office of Strategic Services... Spys!! LOL

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Date: 08/20/14 07:46
Re: What is OSS?
Author: hoydie17

mkostecky Wrote:
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> PowellWye Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Operations and Service Support, located in
> > Atlanta. Handles train consists and switch
> lists
> > among other things.
>
> During WW2 it was the Office of Strategic
> Services... Spys!! LOL

You mean "spies"; plural...

Truman disbanded the OSS after WWII, it was later resurrected as a different agency, one most people now recognize as the CIA.

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Date: 08/20/14 09:35
Re: What is OSS?
Author: nsrlink

Out of Sequence Suffering

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Date: 08/21/14 08:03
Re: What is OSS?
Author: mkostecky

hoydie17 Wrote:
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> mkostecky Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > PowellWye Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Operations and Service Support, located in
> > > Atlanta. Handles train consists and switch
> > lists
> > > among other things.
> >
> > During WW2 it was the Office of Strategic
> > Services... Spys!! LOL
>
> You mean "spies"; plural...
>
> Truman disbanded the OSS after WWII, it was later
> resurrected as a different agency, one most people
> now recognize as the CIA.

Yes Dear!!

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