Mollie

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Gordon - 

I agree with you that I never heard Ms referred to as "Mollies" around Bristol.  Tim Hensley referred to them that way in "Steam Steel and Stars" and for all I know that was what they were called around his home town of Kenova.  But in print, only in SS&S and in the new "SLS" book.

3- or 4-hundreds is what they were called . . .

EdKing
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  More and more recently I have seen the term "Mollie" used to describe N & W's Class M steam locomotives.  Although I once worked in an N & W shop that had a Class M, I never heard the term "Mollie" until recently, but I have to admit that most rank and file N & W railroaders would refer to a locomotive by the number series instead of the class, e.g., a "four-hundred" instead of a "Class M."

  Still, I wonder, is "Mollie" a recent railfan invention.  Anyone know?

  Gordon


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