Locomotive names

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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

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Based on Bud Jeffries' book (s), I thought it was "workhorse."

Dave Stephenson



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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

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