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Re: UPY Y894
Author: Chris Walker
Date: 11-23-2013 - 19:22

Outsider Wrote:
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>
> While this post is here...
> what is with the Y in the engine's number?
> In my neck of the woods, we have slews of UPY
> units, UPY 709 pops up frequently.
> What's with the UPY Y### numbering system? Does
> the extra Y mean something?


Once UP owned more than a thousand Locomotives, given there is only room for up to 9999 in the Number Boards, there would then be the need to run up a new reporting mark to generate new number blocks. The large number of loco's assigned to switching and yard transfer settled it in a logical manner, I guess.

Chris
in New Zealand

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  UPY Y894 Outsider 11-23-2013 - 13:43
  Re: UPY Y894 OPRRMS 11-23-2013 - 14:36
  Re: UPY Y894 Outsider 11-23-2013 - 14:57
  Re: UPY Y894 ble692 11-23-2013 - 16:18
  Re: UPY Y894 Outsider 11-23-2013 - 16:41
  Re: UPY Y894 Outsider 11-23-2013 - 17:46
  Re: UPY Y894 P. Kepler 11-23-2013 - 17:52
  Re: UPY Y894 E 11-23-2013 - 18:01
  Re: UPY Y894 Outsider 11-23-2013 - 18:17
  Re: UPY Y894 Chris Walker 11-23-2013 - 19:22
  "UPY" reporting marks OPRRMS 11-23-2013 - 19:48
  Re: "UPY" reporting marks Wes 11-24-2013 - 00:13
  Re: "UPY" reporting marks E 11-24-2013 - 08:43
  Re: "UPY" reporting marks George Andrews 11-24-2013 - 10:39


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