and he notes -
At 01:07 PM 6/9/2007, bud9351 wrote:
"...which other railroad called their 4-8-4's
"Niagara", although spelled slightly different?"
National Railways Of Mexico and the Spanish spelling was "Niágara"
BTW - The Central Of Georgia called theirs "Big
Apples" even though they never went to New York City,
I never heard a steam era railroad employee call
a locomotive by it's Whyte classification. It was
(at least on the B&M) a practice to use the class
or number series i. e. a Berkshire (2-8-4) was a
"4000" (the locos were numbered 4000-4023) They
were also called T-1s or T-2s, their road
classification. I never heard them called
Berkshires. The Pacifics were called by class
numbers - P1, 2, 3 and 4. Moguls were called "1300s (also 1400s), etc.
As a lad I used to hang around railroad station
in the evening and befriended the baggage master.
He would talk about the various locomotives by
type or number and let me know that only
"railroad nuts and ad men" called the road's
locomotives by their "fancy" names. I learned
quickly that being a railfan and calling an R-1 a
"Mountain" classified me as a 'nut'. I also
learned quickly what locomotive was in what
classification and used that term. A Berkshire or
a Mountain was geography and a T-1 or an R-1 was
a locomotive! No doubt employees on other roads did the same.
Raleigh in rainy Maine where I might rename my
converted AF 4-8-4 a "Salmon" type for the Salmon
River, which flows (and sometimes overflows) near my home...
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