Been checking over my notes, and the Lackawanna men during that era referred
to the H16-44s as the "930s." Similarly, the RS3s were "900s." The little
FMs moniker must have come later from the modelers, and I shouldn't have
spoke without checking the notes. The tradition of referring to engines by
the road number class dates to the steam era, when the Poconos were more
often known as 1600s and the 4-6-0s were Ten Hundreds. The Mountains were
fourteen-hundreds and the fourteen-fiftys.
....Mike
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