NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 3, Issue 28

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Please define foamers

> Message: 4

> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:50:43 -0700

> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> Subject: Re: TAN; Re: Cow and calf

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> I stand corrected!  (I certainly have my foamer moments, sad to say.)

> 

> peter

> 

> On Apr 11, 2006, at 8:38 PM, nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

> 

> 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

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

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> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:46 PM

> Subject: TAN; Re: Cow and calf

> 

> 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.



Rodney Byrd