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[quote user="dredmann"]Yeah, her numberboards said X-844, but the cab and smokebox plate still said 4449. Perhaps I am mistaken, but you may be confusing the train number with the locomotive number. I suspect that the locomotive was SP 4449, and it was one of the two locomotives powering train X-844. The "X" is a common designator for "extra", IOW, not one of their usual moves. UP may very well designate any train with UP 844 on point as X-844. The number boards often angled to the left and right of the top front of the smokebox often show the train number. Ancient but well-known example: if you are familiar with the event / song, "The Wreck of the Old 97", you know that the 97 was not the locomotive (which was number 1132 or something?); the 97 was the train number, which was the number for the south-bound fast mail from Washington, D.C. to Atlanta, GA. [/quote] Yeah, I know. The name of the train was X-844, because generally when UP moves 844 it's X844. So 4449 displayed the train name, just like in the steam era.
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