On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 "MDelvec952_@_aol.com" wrote: > > > 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. What were the 4-6-2's, 4-6-4's and 2-8-2's known as? Eleven Hundreds for the Pacifics, Twelve Hundreds and Twentyone Hundreds for the Alco Mikes and Eleven-Fifties for the Hudsons? I have those as well as Sixteen Hundreds in HO :) J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon President & Network Administrator "root_@_bluemoon.net" net.bluemoon.net - Blue Moon Online System V.90, X2 & K56flex www.railfan.net - The Railfan Network http://www.bluemoon.net mud.bluemoon.net 4000 - MoonMUD bbs.bluemoon.net irc.bluemoon.net - ZUHnet Buffalo, NY IRC Server ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------
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