> Sorry if I did make my reply clear. When TTX
> was formed all member railraods who joined
> the company had to buy in or pay some from
> of 'dues'. Often this took the form of
> transferring some rolling stock to the then
> new company. So renumberings did occur as
> TTX set up their own numbering system and
> digested these acquisitions. What I should
> have added was that - once assigned a TTX
> number - that number stays with the car.
> When many class 1's begin to scrap out or
> retire a car series they consolidate numbers
> to make large blocks of 'empty' numbers
> available for newer cars. This is contrary
> to the TTX practice of assigning different
> letter reporting marks but keeping the same
> TTX number.

> Bob

Bob:

Thanks for the clarification. BTW, I like what you guys did with your LONG TTX flat.


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