TAN; Re: Cow and calf

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How does SP lash them up, pete?  Do they use rope, baling wire or duct tape?

N&W and every other railroad I ever heard of never "lashed them up".  They coupled them up (MUed) them into combinations that were termed "consists".  

In 43 years I never heard a railroader use the term "lashup".   I've heard plenty of foamers use the term, though, and it always affects me like scraping fingernails across a blackboard . . .

Ed King
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  Not so odd, perhaps.  For example, the SP had a batch of SW1500s with road trucks which I've seen occasionally in road freight lash-ups.  At one time, all SP Diesels were being built with the same gear ratios.


  pete groom


  On Apr 10, 2006, at 7:12 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

  . . .The UP at one point used SW1500 [I think] cow / calf sets as helpers on grades in CA.  Very strange choice.

  . . .


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