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The size of the road has nothing to do with it. A generation ago, the president of a mid-sized railroad, remembering his clerking days writing long 5 or 6 digit numbers, ordered that HIS railroad would be less typical. Mr. Barringer's Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, the "Monon Route", had a boxcar numbered "1". The number series started at one and went up into three digits. Today, five and six digit numbers are almost necessary account of computer programs.
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