Do identical car numbers bother you ?...

[LVJJJ]

Identical car numbers do bother me, but what bothers me even more is the fact that most factory numbered cars do not have enuff "7's" and too many "8's".  Somewhere out there is my ideal piece of rolling stock, #777777.  Yes, I like to pick nits.  Larry of the Northwest.

[BUZZDUZ]

yES, BUT I AM WORKING ON A SYSTEM THAT HELPS WITH THE PROBLEM AND NOT DESTROY THE CARS OR ENGINE IDENITY. I TRY TO MATCH THE DECAL AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE AND ADD  "-A" THRU Z , ETC OR "-1"THRU 99 ETC, TO THE EXSISTING NUMBER

[fec153]

Tho not a nit-picker, I loathe duplicate numbers. Out of 400 plus cars, only a dozen are duplicates. My { H.O.} Ortners, FEC, are the only ones I purposely bought with dupes.

Flip

 

[gear-jammer]

Out of 400 plus cars, only a dozen are duplicates.

That is impressive.  So far we have avoided duplicates, but as time goes on we will probably change numbers if necessary.

Sue

[espeejim]

Hello everyone, Identical numbers on frieght or passenger cars don't bother me much, but on motive power I like to see diffrent numbers. After all is'nt that we all look at first? My friends who come over to "see the trains" don't even notice the numbers at all! But i feel that if you think about it too much, should then yes you fix those numbers. Keep um rolling!

[DSchmitt]

I have a lot of engines with the same number but in different paint schemes: 

Silver and Orange

Green

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[theodorefisk]

It doesn't really bother me too much. With the exception of five Rutland boxcars, I have very few duplicate cars in the fleet of 300 or so I have, amazingly enough.

[theodorefisk]

I will say, in echoing others, that the worst thing on a freight car or other rolling stock is the wrong number. When I was with the Santa Fe, I distributed boxcars offline and knew all the series. When in a hobby store or looking in a catalog, I would find a car with a number that someone pulled out of the air that wouldn't be corrrect at all and that would aggravate me more than anything. If a manufacturer of rolling stock was going to worry about the number of rivets or ladder rungs, it should at least get the car number and mark correct.

[Wdlgln005]

It does bother me some that it makes another project for the RR I'd rather not do. I've been an Nscaler for a long time. Many A1G cars came with only one car number. For some roads, you'd have to wait years for MTL to produce another car in that number series. I give credit to Atlas for producing their locos for as many roads as they do. Prices for items get too high or too scarce if they don't make enough of a hot seller.

Matching the car color & number font gets to be a chore. It would be easier if you could make your own carnumbers with white letters. Not many use yellow. I don't want to spend $500 for an Alps printer just to do car numbers. Prices for items become too high or  

The problem gets worse as you try to get a proto car fleet for a fallen flag minority road. Then you don't need so many ATSF or UP units.