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Hello, I am new (sort of) to this Model Railroading thing. My dad had a bunch of train track and a couple of loco's that I messed around with as a tweener and a teenager. But, now that I am older and have a 5 year old son who is an absolute train fanatic, I am going to start to build a layout. Something that I hope will turn into a great family project with my dad helping out when he's in town and my son, daughter, fiance and I can all work on a little bit. Having said all of that, I am curious if anyone knows of a collection of term definitions that I can read or look into. I've been picking up copies of Model Railroader and looking at lots of websites and am unsure what I'm looking at when they say GP9 for diesels or GP7, or whatever. I figured out the whole 4-6-2 for steam engines meaning their wheel configurations, but I was curious about the others. Thanks for any help and I'm sure I'll be "lurking" here and posting fairly often. Darrin
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