Re: Hoodoo locomotives and railroad superstitions (D&RG 107)
| February 01, 2017 03:12PM |
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As I understand it, 666 or 13 were generally not considered numbers that a hogger would feel ill-at-ease while running (though the ET&WNC did skip 13 for their locomotive numbers on their ten-wheelers).
I talked with a SP steam engineer in the 90s and he said other numbers were considered unlucky, but I can't recall what they were. They were not numbers the layman would ever think of as unlucky.
JS Driver Wrote:
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> Then there is the whole superstition with
> locomotive numbers, like 666, thirteen and so on.>
>
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
I talked with a SP steam engineer in the 90s and he said other numbers were considered unlucky, but I can't recall what they were. They were not numbers the layman would ever think of as unlucky.
JS Driver Wrote:
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> Then there is the whole superstition with
> locomotive numbers, like 666, thirteen and so on.>
>
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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