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Re: How to # that darn B unit...
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Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:52:41 GMT
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Thanks for all the info. I had heard that the engines were seen as one whole
unit. So I will just leave it with out a number.
Dave
PNLTC
ps. I ment SFSC, not SCSC
In lugnet.trains, Ken Cefaratti writes:
> According to Model Railroad Magazine, most, if not all railroads considered
> multi-unit lashups as one locomotive, thus having the same number and not
> needing a numberboard. This was done mainly to by-pass the union rules
> requiring an engineer and crew on 'each' locomotive, since they were all
> controlled by the main unit anyway...
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| (...) I presume an A-B-B-A arrangement would have two different numbers for each A-B pairing though? So, by the union rule, there'd be two crews. Would controls of the second be slaved to the first? Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| According to Model Railroad Magazine, most, if not all railroads considered multi-unit lashups as one locomotive, thus having the same number and not needing a numberboard. This was done mainly to by-pass the union rules requiring an engineer and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.trains)
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