Re: (erielack) What's in a number?

["Mark J. Bushnell" <mbushnell_@_mindspring.com>]

on 11/27/01 13:02, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) at paultup_@_lucent.com wrote:

> Anyone have any idea why EL's predecessors started numbering their main
> diesel groups at "zero" (e.g., 1200, 1400, 850, etc.), and EL started their
> class numbers at "one" (e.g., 3301, 3601, 2501, etc.)?
> 
> Just always wondered that...
> 
> - Paul
> 
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Probably the same reason some airlines number their aircraft fleets starting
at "one". For example, Continental begins the fleet numbering for their
Boeing B-777's in the single numbers. Aircraft "001" sounds better than
aircraft "000" (at least to me it does).

Mark

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