Freight Car Numbers

NW Modeling List nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
Thu Oct 4 13:59:05 EDT 2007


--- 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

================

That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh!

Mark Peele
Catonsville, MD


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