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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by qwerty1 Also why do people downgrade a system because it doesn't have four-digit addressing. How many people have over a hundred locos, how many have 9999 locos. [/quote] they're not downgrading, just showing it as a negitive feature. 4 digit addressing allows you to use the full engine number as the decoder address, which makes it easy to remember what a loco's number is by just looking at it. so if you have a loco number 1204, in 2 digit systems you have to choose what address to use, if you choose 04 (the last 2 digits) and you have a 1304 on your roster, what do you do? either renumber the loco or choose some obscure number and hope you remember it. whereas with 4 digit numbering, you can use all 4 digits and set all your loco's to their on the model numbers, so you can now have 1204 and 1304 stored for easy recall by just looking at them. Yes you will never have 9999 Engines to run, but you may have 20-30 that are classified by their numbers. example: steamers usually were classified by type (4-4-0) and builder (baldwin) such that you had each type assigned to a number group (100-199, 1200-1500, ect) and builders were assigned subsets in that grouping (xx00-xx50 being baldwin, xx51-xx99 being Lima). deisels bing more uniform in nature don't really ahve wide varieties needing classification groupings, but durning the transition era, even deisels were classified into a number group. By using 4 digit numbering you are able to accuratly reproduce classifications and make identifying what loco you need to hurry up and take over a breeze.
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