It does but not big time. I need to get into ‘decalling’ (is there such a word). As soon as my layout is fully completed I going start doing some recording with the video cam. and there are going to be a lot of close ups.
Rich
I run Nscale and enjoy seeing the train as a whole. The numbers are so small on an Nscale car that you really have to look. It does not bother me. My locomotives must have different numbers. They are a whole lot more noticable.
I am quick to renumber a car if it has the same road number . For one, it lets me customize the car. Two, It makes opperation a little easier not having a bunch of cars the same. I dont feel as bad if I weather it , because I have another just like it!
I wouldn’t say ‘Bigtime’, but I change numbers or be very certain that anything that I paint has different numbers.
Life’s too short! However, just to simplify things I order most of my rolling stock with “data only” markings. If at some juncture down the road I want to number and brand them it will be easier for me to do so.
Trevor[:)]
I can’t say that it bothers me “big time” but I would rather they weren’t all numbered the same. I have some UP boxcars with different numbers and a couple Menasha cars with the same number. I run the UP boxcars together and they look fine, but I run the Menasha cars on separate trains so they aren’t together and the number doesn’t make a difference then.
My Hoppers are pretty heavily weathered, so the same road numbers aren’t quite as apparent.
No, it doesn’t bother me because I renumber them. A lot of cars don’t come with the right numbers for my time period or for the prototype, and I have to renumber them anyway.
Today’s more expensive cars, the ones that are prototype-specific and have the right numbers anyway, often come in different numbers.
And the less expensive cars are hardly ever “ready-to-run” anyway. Re-doing them is part of the fun of the hobby.
See my continuing “Santa Fe covered hopper cars of the 1950s in N scale” thread at http://www.trainboard.com/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/78/t/000112.html
you fellas must have better eyes than i got. i can’t see the raod numbers when the train is going aroud the track. I ts ine of those things that does not bother me.
I really don’t care if rolling stock has the same number. Something else to worry about.
Guess it’s not that big a deal after all! [:D]
It doesnt bother me too much (well it didnt but after reading this thread its gotten me thinking) It would be nice if the maufacturers shipped rolling stock/locos with data only and unnumbered but with a small sheet of individual number decals so we could number them how we needed, for the folks who dont care if the numbers are the same or the ‘casual MRer’ they could just leave them off.
Too much to do to worry about it now.
Have fun & be safe.
Karl.
Isn’t that what keeps decal makers in business?
Besides, I like to put a different number on each side when I renumber.
makes a small fleet look BIG
Doug, in Utah
It bothers me,but I wouldn’t say big time.The day will come when I will have all different road numbers but I won’t lose any sleep while waiting for that day to come.[:D]
It is importamt that cars not have the same number. It is a matter of life and death that engines not have duplicate numbers.
You wouldn’t see that in the real world, so yes, simply put, it irks me to death!! [:(!]
Especially when I buy something just because I think it’s a different road number from one I already have, only to get home and discover my memory has failed me once again.
Fortunately, graffiti decals and so many cars being re-stenciled for second-hand owners nowadays has made the re-numbering process a lot easier - no need to find an exact decal match for the lettering size and style anymore.
Yes it bothers me big time - not allowed. The Car Card program I use doesn’t like it, makes it real tough during an ops session when two of the same car shows up in the same train.
I’ve never been one to be accused of worrying too much about the details, but it would drive me nuts to have identical road numbers on my railroad at the same time.
Yes, it bothers me to have cars with the same numbers, but I tolerate it and space them out as much as possible so it’s not as noticable. I have it on my list of things to do one of these days to paint over the old numbers and re-decal all the cars that are like this so they’ll have different numbers.
trainluver1
Just a little with cars that have numbers that are 2 feet tall in scale,like my Southern hopper cars, but the ones with liitlle numbers , I can hardly see them. Repainting is in the future plans, but not a priority.
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