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Earlier this spring I noticed a weird pattern in the way Alaska Railroad numbered their locomotives. So I went to the yard and found an engeneer in an idling locomotive and asked him. He told me that locomives are numbered to identify their horsepower rating (as mentioned above).(And by the way, i forgot to ask the guy a for a cab ride... oh well, maybe next time[:p]) Here are examples of how locos are numbered on ARR (they are the current locos only) MP15 1500HP #1551-1554 GP38-2 2000HP #2001-2008 GP49 2800HP #2801-2809 GP40-2 3000HP #3001-3015 SD70MAC 4000HP #4001- 4016 SD70MAC (coming spring 2004) 4317-4324 (There is additional 300HP for HEP, last two numbers start with 17 to avoid confusion with previous SD70's) Notice how last number is never a zero (2001 but not 2000, 3001 not 3000)? Its simple - they ran out of zeroes! Not all railroads do that, however.
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