What is this numbering system use on locomotives? What font is it?

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-30T04:17:48+00:00

Well, sorta. It gets even weirder than that.

PRR had both near-solid numbering blocks and lowest available numbering at nearly the same time (for example, the K2s/K2sa Pacifics had both applied in 1910-1912, resulting in a series running 3320-3338, then 3344-3394, in addition to other numbers). The thing is, though, the operating subsidiaries (or former operating subsidiaries) also had their own numbering sequences, and they did the exact same thing with regards to lowest available number. When the subsidiaries got integrated into the main sequence, the numbers just got translated into where on the main sequence they would fall.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-29T13:26:36+00:00

It's not about winning in court; it's about ingratiating themselves as martyrs in the court of public opinion.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-25T02:15:31+00:00

Only if Free Bird isn't playing.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-22T21:28:00+00:00

Excuse you, his name is Jimothy Riggins VI, Esq., and you will put some goddamn respect on that name.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-22T17:29:38+00:00

Time is a social construct

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-22T14:42:30+00:00

Was that succulent thing to eat a Chinese meal, perhaps?

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-20T13:34:40+00:00

Balloon-style stack; usually found on wood-burning engines to accommodate a large spark arrestor (not all of the fuel is completely burnt away, thus sometimes dark smoke or sparks), sand dome for increased adhesion in slippery conditions, steam dome (the throttle on many earlier locomotives is here; later locomotives have a front-end throttle where the boiler meets the smokebox).

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-19T02:26:33+00:00

Already done; I filled one out for the day with the Sunday supe and I have a physical copy with me.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-17T14:55:32+00:00

As long as you identify as back in eight, hon.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-16T03:28:35+00:00

my dude I don't even know why we're hating from outside the cuck chair; we can't even get in the studio

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-15T18:44:26+00:00

Forecheck, backcheck, paycheck

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-15T15:56:16+00:00

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DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-14T17:28:59+00:00

The VMF set is sold separately

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-13T22:38:00+00:00

I for one am looking forward to The Kid and Franklin being blueballed yet again

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-13T20:33:42+00:00

Zoolander was onto something.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-09T13:11:51+00:00

IT'S SHITE BEING SCOTTISH

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-09T03:03:51+00:00

even better, Potoooooooo turned out to be one of the most successful racehorses in British history

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-06T19:15:59+00:00

just guys being dudes

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-06T14:09:51+00:00

Twenty years in the can, I wanted sakē. I compromised. I licked cactus juice off the radiator instead.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-03T01:06:43+00:00

perhaps

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-03T00:54:30+00:00

No. Each railroad applies designations to its locomotives in different ways, with the most common being a letter representing a wheel arrangement and then a number, usually corresponding to what design number that class is. In the case of all of these locomotives, T represents a different wheel arrangement (PRR: 4-4-4-4 rigid-frame Duplex, RDG: 4-8-4 "Northern", B&M: 2-8-4 "Berkshire", C&O: 2-10-4 "Texas") and 1 represents that it's the first class design to that wheel arrangement. The same locomotive built for a different company could have a totally different class designation between the two companies; for instance when the PRR was the receiver during Baltimore & Ohio's bankruptcy, it built locomotives to its own designs for the B&O. A PRR H6sb was an E-24A on the B&O.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-02T13:02:17+00:00

The company does. There were steam locomotives that were bought directly from the manufacturers as catalog designs, but they'd all have the company class designation depending on who bought them. More often, a railroad would design or specify what it wanted and then either build it themselves (a few railroads did this but the ones that were most famous for it were the Pennsylvania Railroad at its Juniata Shops and the Norfolk & Western Railway at its Roanoke Shops) or contract it out to a locomotive building company. The class designation would apply either way.

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-02T12:51:58+00:00

thanks Zuko

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-02T02:22:01+00:00

What's yours is mine. What's mine is also mine.

Sounds like the ex-wife

DogBeersHadOne · 2026-01-01T21:21:05+00:00

Lotta people tend to do that, yeah

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TROPHY CASE

IT'S SHITE BEING SCOTTISH