Freight Car Numbers

[NW Modeling List]

--- NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:


> This is intended to make you smile.

>  

> This falls into the folder labeled, "There is a

> prototype for almost  

> anything."

> The June 14, 1971 issue of Norfolk & Western Railway

> Employee  Magazine has 

> an interesting article on page 46.  It describes how

> an  alert yard clerk 

> caught two Missouri Pacific box cars bearing the

> same  number!  The identical make 

> box cars were each lettered and numbered "MP  35477,

> but on adjacent tracks of 

> the Lima, Ohio yard."  

>  

> What does this mean to me?  I can't wait for a

> layout visitor to ask  about 

> my having multiples of the same car numbers in my

> hopper car fleet!

>  

> Aubrey  Wiley

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That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh!

Mark Peele
Catonsville, MD


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