11-10-2011, 01:47 PM
Here are some more random examples:
Jobs on the Twin Cities and Western Railroad in Minnesota: http://www.tcwr.net46.net/operations.html - examples : "UP turn" (transfer run to interchange), "Unit DDG" (Dried Destillers Grain - animal feed, byproduct of ethanol production), "Glencoe Turn", "Utility Job", "West End Switch".
Some more Twin Cities area train ids from various railroads: http://twincitiesrailfan.com/trainids - the Minnesota commercial number their trains as "Job xx", where xx is a number, but the trains also have nicknames - like Job 19 - the "Hugo Job", or Job 88 "Northtown transfer", or Job 46 - the "Belt job", while the Canadian Pacific uses Hxx, like H18 - "Morning Ford Hauler", H32 - "Afternoon Ford Hauler", H33 - the "Hastings Patrol".
So you have a lot of ways you can number and name your trains. You could pick train numbers at random, or you could have some kind of system, where a train that goes from your main yard to the UP interchange is e.g. train 24, while a train that starts from the UP yard heading your way is train 42. Or group them by type - saying all local turns/patrols is in the 10-series, all transfers are in the 20-series, all unit trains are in the 30-series and so on and so forth.
Smile,
Stein
Jobs on the Twin Cities and Western Railroad in Minnesota: http://www.tcwr.net46.net/operations.html - examples : "UP turn" (transfer run to interchange), "Unit DDG" (Dried Destillers Grain - animal feed, byproduct of ethanol production), "Glencoe Turn", "Utility Job", "West End Switch".
Some more Twin Cities area train ids from various railroads: http://twincitiesrailfan.com/trainids - the Minnesota commercial number their trains as "Job xx", where xx is a number, but the trains also have nicknames - like Job 19 - the "Hugo Job", or Job 88 "Northtown transfer", or Job 46 - the "Belt job", while the Canadian Pacific uses Hxx, like H18 - "Morning Ford Hauler", H32 - "Afternoon Ford Hauler", H33 - the "Hastings Patrol".
So you have a lot of ways you can number and name your trains. You could pick train numbers at random, or you could have some kind of system, where a train that goes from your main yard to the UP interchange is e.g. train 24, while a train that starts from the UP yard heading your way is train 42. Or group them by type - saying all local turns/patrols is in the 10-series, all transfers are in the 20-series, all unit trains are in the 30-series and so on and so forth.
Smile,
Stein