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    US MOC loco numbering —Tim David
   (...) This brings me to a question that was bothering me when i was looking throught the NMRA photos. I don't know my US loco classes by sight so I was looking up the numbers to find what the MOCs represented. None of them seemed to have correct (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
   
        Re: US MOC loco numbering —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Someone didn't check the published rosters? Every railroad has their own scheme, which they violate with impunity when they want to, or if they run out of numbers (UP just started a second reporting mark for locos because they had run out of 4 (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
   
        Re: US MOC loco numbering —John Neal
   (...) I just liked the number-- it's palindromic fun! :-) For the most part, actually, I choose that number for the ease of it. On the decal itself, there were 2 numbers "8003", along with the usual 0,1,2,3,4.... Now, obviously, one can create any (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
 

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