Metro Red Line wrote:Yes, but I can either:- re-number them with paint and decals- severely weather them- cover part of the reporting marks with graffitti!
Yes, but I can either:
- re-number them with paint and decals
- severely weather them
- cover part of the reporting marks with graffitti!
...or, you can turn them into useful structures around your layout:
To answer your first question: Yes, it does - even though no one else will probably know. I do empathize with Chip's predicament.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
SpaceMouse wrote:I'm living with it for the time being. Eventually, I'll get around to changing them. You take what you get when you model un-popular eras.
Un-popular eras ?... I had no idea any era of model railroading was unpopular Mr. Mouse (Chip).
Tracklayer
Metro Red Line wrote: Yes, but I can either:- re-number them with paint and decals- severely weather them- cover part of the reporting marks with graffitti!
I like the first option the best...
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Gosh, I didn't know anyone even paid attention to those little, bitty numbers in N scale...
:>)
Nah, just kidding.
N usually has a bit fewer choices available. I've noticed that Micro-Trains generally releases cars in single numbers, while in HO its cousin Kadee puts out pairs of differently numbered cars. More typical are releases from Red Caboose and Intermountain, which will put out 6 or 12 different road numbers of the same car in each run. If you want to represent certain prototypes, you have to accept some of that at times, no matter what scale you model in. Otherwise it's difficult to get a representative fleet of rolling stock assembled.
Your strategy sounds a lot like my own. For boxcars and other types generally handled as single cars, I stick to distinctive road numbers. I do have 12 Athearn hoppers that have duplicated numbers, two sets of the same six numbers. With traffic like coal being generally handled as cuts of cars, if not outright unit trains, it bothers me less to have duped numbers. And it's virtually unnoticeable to visitors.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I have 22 4 bay hoppers all with the same number. Doesn't bother me as they are usually in two trains (when I have a layout)
Ken.
Hello all. I just purchased a couple of N scale Atlas steam era wood side PFE (Pacific Fruit Express) reefers off of ebay earlier tonight for $7.00 each - plus shipping and insurance of course. I figured why not seeing as how they generally go for $12.00 and up most of the time... Anyways. One of the reasons I think they went as cheap as they did is because they have identical numbers, which is something I've learned to live with. I figure I can always renumber them some day down the road when I've got nothing else to do. I also have about ten Santa Fe coal gondolas, and most of them have identical numbers as well. The way I deal with this is by placing a car or two in between the identical ones that do have different numbers to break them up a bit...