Does it bother you?

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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[%-)][%-)]

[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.

[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.

[fiatfan]

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

Tom

[NZRMac]

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

Ken.

[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?