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Jim Grigsby

November 07, 2016 03:59PM

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The Northern Pacific, at least in later years, used engine number boxes in addition lighted headlight numbers on some locomotives. I have seen no indication that they ever put train numbers there. The NP used a lighted number box above the headlight, and this might have been hard to see against the glare from the headlight. I have also seen UP locomotives with the engine number in the number boxes, but they were on pool trains running on NP tracks between Seattle and Portland.

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