Someone posted on this site information on how the heck NS comes up with their road numbers, by the type of haul and the direction. I read it once, forgot to bookmark and have been searching all morning for it, cannot find.
Anyone know under what post this was? Or, alternatively, anyone have a listing of how NS does their road numbers?
Lastly, is there a book that anyone knows of that’s a good beginners reference to stuff like road numbers, signal placements, etc? I’m modeling NS and am trying to get it right.
Norfolk Southern 1995 Review by Scott Lindsey is an excellent, tho dated look at NS’s operations. Each division has a chapter, usually 4-6 pages (high quality printing) with excellent photographs, not just photos of locomotives, but excellent photographs of trains in their environment. One of my favorite such photos is on page 29, showing a NS coal train twisting thru an Appalachian hollow with house trailers and small houses squeezed between the tracks and the creek.
Great book and no doubt will give you a good reference for modelling.