Does it bother you?

[grandeman]

It concerns me a little to have more than one of the same road number rolling stock around but I will tolerate it. I can't deal with that on locomotives though!!! Am I to particular?

[NZRMac]

I have 23 Bachmann N&W silver series hoppers all exactly the same.

Ken.

[fiatfan]

I may eventually get around to renumbering but it is very low on my priority list.

Tom

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by grande man

It concerns me a little to have more than one of the same road number rolling stock around but I will tolerate it. I can't deal with that on locomotives though!!! Am I to particular?

Not at all! As for me, whenever I go train watching, the locomotives are the things that really excite me [i.e. that I pay attention to]. Oftentimes, once the locos are out of sight, I'll drive away before the train finishes passing - especially with coal drags, where there may be a few hundred hoppers virtually identical.

If I'm shooting layout photos, I just make sure the half-dozen [or fewer] cars near the loco[s] have unique numbers.

[Anonymous]

I guess with Hoppers and open cars it's better to have at least two of each anyway, one load and one empty. Other than that, I'm kinda picky about multiple cars with the same number. But then again, it shouldn't be too hard to erase one or two numbers at the end of the sequence and replace them with new ones, or do a patch renumber.

[tommyr]

Yes. But only because I recently started using a card order system for making up trains. When you draw 4 boxcars all with the same number - how do you know which one goes where[%-)][%-)]

[SpaceMouse]

I don't have ll that many rolling stock--maybe 25 or so. I don't have nay duplicates now. I converted all my duplicates to now unnumbered Hogwarts. I plan on having an operating system that uses numbers. I have issues using the dot method, although U don't mind it at the club or other places where lots of people work at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Yes it does bother me, really with making waybills, I've decided that the hoppers going to the mines on my layout are going to be in a carblock so I wont have to worry about renumbering them.

Everything else though, must have seperate numbers.

[trolleyboy]

It doesn't bother me that much. anu duplicates I have will eventually get replaced,but I won't lose sleep over it.Mind you with all the multiple numbers and data only type kits out there now this is becoming less and less an issue. Rob

[AggroJones]

I've got 3 Athearn PFE reefers with the same road number. All are weathered differently and the road number doesn't really stand out enough for me to even care. I don't operate them at a club and rivit counters don't visit my room. Its fine with me.

Locomotives are a different story. If I were to aquire two of a said loco, there'd be some re-numbering involved.

[Big_Boy_4005]

I'm lucky, out of about a thousand cars, I only have a few dozen with the same number. Since I will be using a card system for operating, all the cars and engines on the layout need to be unique. I will renumber as necessary.

[tstage]

It does - but only to a some extent. I recently purchased a duplicate Accurail hopper inadvertently and didn't realize it until after I had put it together. I easily rectified the problem by taking an eraser and rubbing the numbers off both sides mechanically. I'm going to use it as an auxillary hopper on my service track.

Tom

[steveblackledge]

i am not concerned with duplicate cars, as long as they are in different parts of a train, when i go to see other layouts i never look at the road numbers on anything anyway, i just like to watch and have some fun

[Fergmiester]

I took care of that by painting over them and remarking them in MESS livery.

You can buy dry transfers and add a number here or there

Fergie

[simon1966]

I have several duplicates, and it sort of bothers me to the extent that now I try not to get duplicates. At some point the duplicates will become the focus of a re-paint/re-numbering project, but not any time soon.

[fievel]

It would be nice to have different numbers on all my rolling stock, but I've got
way too many other things to do on my pike. I have enough stuff to do to keep
me occupied for years. So I voted lifes too short.

[Eriediamond]

It doesn't bother me at all, but like others I like different numbers on the locos. To those that "operate" their railroad, I can see where it would be a problem though. I voted like my signature,Ken

[IRONROOSTER]

It doesn't bother me - although if I ever set up an operating system that uses car numbers I'll have to deal with it in some fashion.
Enjoy
Paul

[BRAKIE]

Yes it bothers me big time to have cars with the same numbers because of using waybills and car cards for operation so I change numbers when needed.[:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BRAKIE
... I change numbers when needed.[:D]

That's actually easier than many people realize - I'm always seeing prototype freight cars where the original number has been painted-over [probably to compensate for fading, etc.] so a slightly-mismatched background color wouldn't look out-of-place on models either.

[Anonymous]

It does but not big time. I need to get into ‘decalling’ (is there such a word). As soon as my layout is fully completed I going start doing some recording with the video cam. and there are going to be a lot of close ups.
Rich

[Anonymous]

I run Nscale and enjoy seeing the train as a whole. The numbers are so small on an Nscale car that you really have to look. It does not bother me. My locomotives must have different numbers. They are a whole lot more noticable.

[Anonymous]

I am quick to renumber a car if it has the same road number . For one, it lets me customize the car. Two, It makes opperation a little easier not having a bunch of cars the same. I dont feel as bad if I weather it , because I have another just like it!

[rogerhensley]

I wouldn't say 'Bigtime', but I change numbers or be very certain that anything that I paint has different numbers.

[Anonymous]

Life's too short! However, just to simplify things I order most of my rolling stock with "data only" markings. If at some juncture down the road I want to number and brand them it will be easier for me to do so.

Trevor[:)]

[Anonymous]

I can't say that it bothers me "big time" but I would rather they weren't all numbered the same. I have some UP boxcars with different numbers and a couple Menasha cars with the same number. I run the UP boxcars together and they look fine, but I run the Menasha cars on separate trains so they aren't together and the number doesn't make a difference then.

My Hoppers are pretty heavily weathered, so the same road numbers aren't quite as apparent.

[leighant]

No, it doesn't bother me because I renumber them. A lot of cars don't come with the right numbers for my time period or for the prototype, and I have to renumber them anyway.
Today's more expensive cars, the ones that are prototype-specific and have the right numbers anyway, often come in different numbers.
And the less expensive cars are hardly ever "ready-to-run" anyway. Re-doing them is part of the fun of the hobby.

See my continuing “Santa Fe covered hopper cars of the 1950s in N scale” thread at http://www.trainboard.com/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/78/t/000112.html

[sledgehammer]

you fellas must have better eyes than i got. i can't see the raod numbers when the train is going aroud the track. I ts ine of those things that does not bother me.

[Anonymous]

I really don't care if rolling stock has the same number. Something else to worry about.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by little grande man

I really don't care if rolling stock has the same number. Something else to worry about.

Guess it's not that big a deal after all! [:D]