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ctjacks · **Posted:** Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:39 pm

To answer Joe's question above - it appears to me that the code for C&O is 0125. So the full code for his car is: 0125003154 .

TrainDetainer · **Joined:** Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:05 pm **Posts:** 272

ctjacks wrote:

To answer Joe's question above - it appears to me that the code for C&O is 0125. So the full code for his car is: 0125003154 .

Joe's car is a caboose, as he mentioned, so the code is 8125003154, 8 being the code for RR owned caboose. The 8 can just be made out on the one pic available on rrpicturearchives, although I can't see the parity number well enough.

Bobulltech · **Joined:** Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:24 pm **Posts:** 113

ctjacks wrote:

The free Iphone apps out there that read bar codes - and there are several - take a digital photo, then analyze the photo to read the bar code. I think that would be the best way to create a reader - an Iphone app. I don't think the modern laser/spinning-mirror scanners could handle the colors on the KarTrak bar codes, but I could be wrong about that. Have you reached out to one of the creators of the free apps on the Iphone to see if they could assist?

As for the original system - if you really wanted to use the original system - there have been PC emulators created for just about every paleo-system from the 1960s and 1970s. I have heard the original system described as refrigerator - sized and from IBM. Does anyone know exactly what type of system it was? System/36, for example?

Chris.

Also DEC PDP 11/70
I removed several with a torch.

System/36 and AS/400 were around as well

I may have removed a site via a friendly T and E crew on a local and some chain

googanelli · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:40 am

I stopped by another C&O caboose that still has it's aci labels on the side and snapped this picture. This cab is C&O 3153. It's in Hamilton, OH and in VERY bad shape. I looked to save it around 7 years ago. Since that time, the local kids destroyed it. A few groups have gotten what usable parts they could harvest from it to save other C&O cabs.

Joe

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