Glade Configuration

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I have heard that the phrase shoo-fly used in reference to a track layout,
is that a shoo-fly takes a shape that is about the same as the motion of a
human hand when you shoo a fly off your food! Think about it, you wave your
hand one direction then back typically at the same time you are moving it
forward.

-Nate


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM, NW Mailing List
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> >From the word detective web site:

> ?Shoo-fly? meaning ?temporary bypass? first appeared in railroad jargon

> around 1905. The logic of this use is unclear, but I think it?s significant

> that around the same time ?shoo-fly? was also being used to mean ?a local

> or commuter train.? My guess is that such trains, traveling slowly with

> frequent stops, were considered a rustic or ?hick? mode of travel, likely

> to be carrying as many flies as human travelers (requiring passengers to

> constantly ?shoo flies?). Perhaps the ?shoo-fly? name then broadened to

> mean bypasses from the main line where trains would have to slow down and,

> eventually, to any sort of bypass, even on a highway. In any case, your use

> of ?shoo-fly? in this sense is clearly an extension of the railroad use

> more than 100 years old, and your friend should thank you for expanding her

> vocabulary.

>

> Kurt S. Kramke

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> On 11/21/12, NW Mailing List wrote:

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> I always understod a "shoo-fly" to be a temporary track laid around a

> wreck site or a wash out. By its nature, it had undesirable curves compared

> to the permanent right of way, and the expectation was that it would

> eventually disappear when the permanent right of way was restored. Why the

> term "shoo-fly" I never asked. I just knew this was what the term referred

> to.

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> Jim Nichols

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> To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Sent: Wed, November 21, 2012 12:27:40 PM

> Subject: Re: Glade Configuration

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> Can some of the old-timers explain to us newbies why it is called a

> "shoo-fly"?

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> I would like to hear the explanation.

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> Many thanks.

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> Rick Huddle

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> Delaware

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> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 9:00 PM

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> Subject: Glade Configuration

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> I difer to others for the reason the shoo-fly exists at Glade Spring but

> here is a shot made this afternoon showing the convolutions.

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Nathan Simmons
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