New Rule Proposition

[cprted]

I'd like to propose a new rule for this section of the forum. When referring to a locomotive, please give more than just the number. I don't expect a broad readership to know which locomotive I'm talking about if I said something about 2141 or 3716. However CN 2141 and CP (KVR) 3716 is a little more descriptive. This will especially help when asking people for info on specific locomotives. With a road name and number, it is easy to google things. A number by itself can lead to a plethora of different sites, most of them useless.

Thoughts? Comments? Observations? Random Musings?

[Semper Vaporo]

I agree that more ident would help the general reader.

I would like to add that, when referencing a city or other locale, people be a bit more specific.

Not everybody knows where cities or small towns are. Example: Anybody heard of "Shueyville"? (They sell a bumper sticker that says, "Where the H*** is Shueyville", because it is so obscure a town in eastern Iowa.  Even a lot of residents of eastern Iowa don't know where it is!).

In addition, there are many cities that share the same name. If I said something happened in "Salem", would you know which one it is? Salem, Massachusetts or Salem, Oregon, ... or Indiana, or Iowa, or any of several dozen other states?

Several years ago there was a lot of talk about the "Brooklyn Roundhouse". I was planning a trip to visit my son and began to think that if I was going to travel 2000 miles, a few dozen more would be well worth it to see the Roundhouse. I started looking for the place on maps, so I could find lodging near it. I studied maps for several hours, following rail lines trying to find a rail yard with a possibility of having a roundhouse. I found only one rail yard that might have one, but aerial photos I found on the web proved it did not. I could not find any other rail lines anywhere that I could guess might have a roundhouse near them.

Then I found out that the Brooklyn Roundhouse is not across New York Harbor from Jersey City, but it is in Portland... No, no, no! Not Portland, Maine. The one on the west coast in Oregon!

In all the discussion of the place, no one had mentioned WHERE it was and I had only heard of two "Brooklyn"s, one in New York and one in Indiana, and I knew the one in Indiana wasn't big enough to have an existing roundhouse.

[jeffhergert]

Not everybody knows where cities or small towns are. Example: Anybody heard of "Shueyville"? (They sell a bumper sticker that says, "Where the H*** is Shueyville", because it is so obscure a town in eastern Iowa.  Even a lot of residents of eastern Iowa don't know where it is!).

I've been to Shueyville, many years ago now.  I've even been to Konigsmark and Cou Falls too, but only by car, never by rail.

Jeff

[Semper Vaporo]

Not everybody knows where cities or small towns are. Example: Anybody heard of "Shueyville"? (They sell a bumper sticker that says, "Where the H*** is Shueyville", because it is so obscure a town in eastern Iowa.  Even a lot of residents of eastern Iowa don't know where it is!).

I've been to Shueyville, many years ago now.  I've even been to Konigsmark and Cou Falls too, but only by car, never by rail.

Jeff

But both are right on the rail line!

[cnwfan51]

   I have to  agree with the form it goes back to fact that a little information will go a long way   Have a great day   Larry