Locomotive names

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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

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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, 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

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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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