Locomotive names

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I'm going to chime in with this. I was reading something the other day 
about phrases and what not that are often mispronounced or otherwise 
misconstrued. For example a lot of people say 'For all intensive 
purposes' when it in fact is really supposed to be 'For all intents and 
purposes' and if I recall correctly workhorse being mistaken as warhorse 
was one of them. So perhaps someone in the museum PR department has 
mistakenly thought it was Warhorse and not Workhorse as it should be.

Nathan

On 5/20/2015 10:44, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Ron,
>     Here is my correspondence with Mike Allen of the Roanoke Times 
> (read from bottom up):
>
> "*/Hi, James, just following up. Museum officials stand by what they 
> told me about the 2156 nickname. However, I will keep in mind for 
> future stories that you and others who contacted me don’t remember 
> such a name ever being used./**//*
>
> *//**/Mike Allen/*
>
> */Arts & Extras columnist/*
>
> */The Roanoke Times/*
>
> *//*
>
> *//*
>
> *//*
>
> */From:/**/James Lisle
> To: Allen, Mike
> Subject: Re: N&W Warhorse...Nah!/*
>
> *//*
>
> *//**/You would have done better asking an actual N&W man!!!/**/
> /*
>
> */Jimmy/**//*
>
> *//*
>
> */On 5/18/2015 5:44 PM, Allen, Mike wrote:/**//*
>
> *//*
>
> */Hey, Jimmy, thanks for your note. The info about the “Warhorse” 
> nickname came from the transportation museum. /**//*
>
> *//*
>
> *//**//**/Mike Allen/*
>
> *//*
>
> */From:/**/James Lisle
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 5:23 PM
> To: Allen, Mike
> Subject: N&W Warhorse...Nah!/**//*
>
> *//*
>
> *//**//**/Mike,/**/
> /*
>
> */    There are many that would appreciate that you not use the name 
> "Warhorse" when referring to N&W locomotive #2156! "Workhorse" maybe, 
> or as the men that ran and built them, they were just known as "Twenty 
> One Hundreds" (pronounced /**/Hunerts/**/to be more precise)./**/
> /**//**/
> /**/Take care,/**/
> /**/Jimmy Lisle/*
> "
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On 5/19/2015 10:29 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> The "warhorse" label was generated by the Roanoke Times. Whether they 
>> confused it with "workhorse" or simply added the adjective to spice 
>> up the story I do not know.
>>
>> I suggest we write letters to the Roanoke Times pointing out the error.
>>
>> Ron Davis
>>
>> On 5/18/2015 12:30 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>>> More than 65 years ago, the N&W’s Class Y-6 was referred to as the 
>>> “the workhorse of the N&W”.  That is exactly what it was, a 
>>> WORKHORSE.  I don’t know where this new term came from, but this 
>>> needs to be stopped. If the term Warhorse remains, it is a 
>>> disservice to the 2156 and the old N&W.
>>> The 2156 is a historical artifact and its appearance and information 
>>> should be accurate and authentic.  As an N&W historian, I cannot let 
>>> this go by and be a part in this new naming.
>>> Bud Jeffries
>>
>>
>>
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