I still find that modern day railroaders....especially the non-railfan
type...only know a model by it's number series...CR engineers that I
know dont call them SD-xx's and so forth...but 8500 series...and so on and
so forth....so it has carried thru as well
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 "MDelvec952_@_aol.com" wrote:
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>
>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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