NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 120, Issue 11

Sun Apr 12 20:21:14 EDT 2015

They call them motors here on the NS in WV/VA too. I think the term comes
from when they ran the electrics. Not sure though.

-Chase Freeman
Grundy,VA

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:17 PM, <nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:15:27 -0600
> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> Subject: Re: Bristol Line
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> About like if you are a true N&W man you call the Valley Line the Valley
> Line and refuse to use 'H-Line' which is what many of today's railfans
> and the like call it. :-P
>
> Nathan
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> On 4/8/2015 07:07, NW Mailing List wrote:
> > "So, if you want to be a real, ontologically true-to-the-tradition
> > railroader, just refuse to use the term "Pulaski District."  Call it
> > the Bristol Line."
> >
> > -- abram burnett
> > (such a curmudgeon that he still uses the telegraph...)
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> They call them 'motors' out here on the BN, drives me nuts! about like
> for DP power, a set of 2 or more consists of a DP and 1 or more 'Slaves'
> the DP being the locomotive that is linked to the lead locomotive.
>
> Nathan
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> On 4/8/2015 07:07, NW Mailing List wrote:
> >  Some people now call Engines "units," and apparently do not know any
> > better.
> >
> > -- abram burnett
> > (such a curmudgeon that he still uses the telegraph...)
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> Funny thing you mention the 'yellowbellies' I have never heard that term
> in relation to anything C&O before. the first ever time I heard the term
> 'yellowbelly' was on the Orin line (Wyoming's Powder River Basin where
> this eastern guy trained, and works) where we were stuck following the
> 'Yellow Brick Road' behind a Slooooow UP train, and my engineer kept
> saying 'I wish them Damned Yelllowbellies would quit dragging his feet'.
> So there you have it, yellowbelly or yellowbellies also refers to UP
> trains...
>
> Nathan
>
> On 4/8/2015 13:07, NW Mailing List wrote:
> > Now that said, we all know that sometimes local usage may vary.  And
> > may vary over time.  There are people here in Cleveland that still
> > refer to "The Big Four Line".  And there was an issue of Vintage Rails
> > that referred to the C&O's streamlined hudsons as "yellowbellies"--a
> > term that no one in the COHS including retired C&O employees ever
> > admitted to having heard before.
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> > Frank Bongiovanni
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> Subject: Bristol Line
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> How many trains use the line a day. I see the line goes down to Johnson
> City, NC although that might be another district. I have seen NS power in
> the yards there.
> Cheers,Jeff
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> Nathan,
>
>                 No one uses "H" line except railfans. It marks them as
> instant out-of-the-area visitors. It is the "Hagerstown District" between
> Hagerstown and Shenandoah and the "Roanoke District" between Shenandoah and
> Roanoke.
>
> Mason
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> Subject: Re: Bristol Line
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>
> About like if you are a true N&W man you call the Valley Line the Valley
> Line and refuse to use 'H-Line' which is what many of today's railfans and
> the like call it. :-P
>
> Nathan
>
> On 4/8/2015 07:07, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> "So, if you want to be a real, ontologically true-to-the-tradition
> railroader, just refuse to use the term "Pulaski District."  Call it the
> Bristol Line."
>
>
>
> -- abram burnett
>
> (such a curmudgeon that he still uses the telegraph...)
>
>
>
> ===========================
> Sent to You from my Telegraph Key
>     ... better than AT&T 4G LTE
> ===========================
>
>
>
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> Nathan Simmons
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> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:46:48 +0000 (UTC)
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> Where is Johnson City N C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Ron Hash
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>      On Friday, April 10, 2015 5:10 AM, NW Mailing List via
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>  How many trains use the line a day. I see the line goes down to Johnson
> City, NC although that might be another district. I have seen NS power in
> the yards there.
> Cheers,Jeff
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