Train Basics Ask Trains What’s in a locomotive number?

What’s in a locomotive number?

By Cody Grivno | November 17, 2022

| Last updated on December 1, 2022

Discussing how different railroad determine road numbers

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Cody discusses locomotive numbering in this installment of Ask Trains.

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