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HOW TO... CHANGE THE IDENTITY OF MODELS

umbers have always been important on railway locomotives and rolling stock. It’s a means of identification that can be used to reveal service history, potential problems, allocations and more. Short of names and liveries, this fast way of identifying a member from a class of similar, if not identical-looking, rolling stock is also what many use in conjunction with a locomotive’s ‘character’. Calling a locomotive ‘Bill’

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