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[quote user="Packers#1"]he was talking about a friend who made a Rio Grande stock car with two different styles of lettering and two different numbers. [/quote] Actually, if I recall correctly it was the same number on both sides of the car - just a different paint scheme. That way it's still correct to the car card but without reading the numbers they look like different cars. To be honest, I don't know the numbers of any car on my roster except for boxcar 4900 off the top of my head - not even two digits! No way could I tell whether it was the same car if I didn't know and couldn't see both sides.All push-pull commuter trains have the engines on the outbound side, and at any point along the line they'll all be facing the same way, except for at least one line (Morristown) on New Jersey Transit, where the diesels running into Hoboken face outbound and the electrics running into Penn Station face inbound. Correct me if I'm wrong, Joe. This is just based on experience from railfanning at Convent Station. (Oh, and I figured out why I kept calling it Convent Garden! When I went to London in 2005, the hotel that we stayed at was closest to Convent Garden station on the Piccadilly line!)---------------------------------- My operating scheme is pretty well defined. CDWJ runs from Concord Staging to White River Junction Staging, with a stop at Lebanon Yard to pull off the local delivery cars and pick up outbounds. WJCD does the same thing but in the other direction - White River Junction Staging to Concord Staging. Local LE-1 handles switching in Lebanon Yard and at industries in Lebanon and Mascoma, NH. Local LE-2 handles switching at industries in Enfield and West Canaan, NH, and intermodal hotshot NAWJ once the equipment is ready, will take a train of TOFC spine cars between Nashua, NH, (via Concord Staging) and White River Junction, VT, and WJNA will do the same in the opposite direction.But here's the catch. CDWJ and WJCD share the same locomotives and crew. Lebanon yard is the west end of White River Southern Railroad track, and trains run over Claremont-Concord Railroad tracks via trackage rights the remaining miles to White River Junction where they interchange with New England Central, CCRR, Pan Am Railways, and Washington County Railroad. After dropping off their train, they pick up cars for the eastbound, change their symbol, and return to WRS tracks. WJNA and NAWJ also share power, but instead of handing over their train to NECR at White River Junction, they continue north to Montreal over NECR and CN tracks and return the next day (session).
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