Locomotive names

[NW Mailing List]

If memory serves, when the discussion of the pronunciation of Kanawha(the
locomotive and the river) hit the C&O lists, at least three guys wrote in
who said that they had been born and/or raised in that area, and the for
sure correct pronunciation was.......Yep; three different pronunciations.

Again, I wonder if there's some very limited local nickname in play here;
recall the discussion about the C&O "yellowbellies".



Frank Bongiovanni

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:24 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

>   One hunnids, two hunnids, six-hunnids, thuteen hunnids, foteen hunnids,
> twenny hunnids, twennyone hunnids – and so it went.  But no “Spirits”, or
> “horses”.
>
> There was a controversy some years ago in TRAINS magazine about the proper
> pronunciation of Chesapeake and Ohio’s 2-8-4 Kanawhas.  It was ended, I
> think, by Dave Ingles who said, properly, that the men just called them
> twenty-seven hundreds.
>
> EdK
>
>  *From:* NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2015 6:17 PM
> *To:* nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
> *Cc:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Locomotive names
>
>  When we lived in Bluefield, my Dad, who worked for Appalachian Power,
> picked up the terminology of the locomotives from the fellows he met.
> Until I was older, exactly as Ed described, I never knew them by anything
> other than the number series.
>
> Dave Phelps
>
>  In a message dated 5/18/2015 12:58:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:
>
>  The 2-8-8-2 wheel arrangement never got a name.    They were not called
> by the men that maintained and ran them anything but twenty-one hundreds
> (or “twennyonehunnids).  There were very few, if any, who even called them
> Wye-sixes.
>
> EdKing
>
>  *From:* NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2015 8:35 AM
> *To:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Cc:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Locomotive names
>
>  Based on Bud Jeffries' book (s), I thought it was "workhorse."
>
> Dave Stephenson
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *To:* Online 1Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:39 PM
> *Subject:* Locomotive names
>
>  For a while when she was in the VMT the 611 had stenciled under the cab
> window, "Pride of Roanoke," and this elicited discussion both pro and con.
>
> Now that Y6a 2156 has arrived in Roanoke, Saturday's local Roanoke
> newspaper had the headline, "'Warhorse' returns for engine reunion," and
> the article had the statement, "...the 2156 was nicknamed the 'Warhorse.'"
>
> I wonder if we will see "Warhorse" stenciled under the cab window of the
> 2156.
>
> Gordon Hamilton
>
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/
>
>  ------------------------------
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>   [image: http://www.avast.com/] <http://www.avast.com/>
>
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> www.avast.com
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/
>
>  ------------------------------
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>    <http://www.avast.com/>
>
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> www.avast.com
>
>
> ________________________________________
> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
> To change your subscription go to
> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20150519/a430503b/attachment-0001.html>