Locomotive names

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Jimmy,

Thank you for keeping us all honest.

Ron Davis

On 5/20/2015 12:44 PM, 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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