Locomotive names

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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,  
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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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