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QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod There were many, many named locomotives in the USA. I won't attempt to come up with a full list, but: B&O had 5600, the "George H. Emerson", and the Lord and Lady Baltimore (in addition to the Presidents). All four of the D&H high-pressure Consolidations were named, although there was no common 'class' name for them. B&M had a competition (I think for school children) to name some of their Pacifics, surviving locomotive #3713 among them -- again, no common name for the class, as all the names were rather wildly different. IIRC, Southern named some of its E8s on the post-Amtrak-inception Southern Crescent, and D&H had a name on at least one of the PAs. We shouldn't forget the RF&P Governor class.
QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans Do you mean the actual name painted on the engine itself?? I can't think of any in Canada, but they seemed to all have "names", Selkirk- Mountain-Jubilee-Pacific etc. etc.
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 csx has named several of its locomotives...and some of the crews have named a few of thier own..... csx has the spirit of waycross...the spirit of***berland...the spirit of west virgina....the spirit grorga...i think thier are a few more out thier..but i dont remember....and i have seen one that showed up at the yard i work at that was hand painted by a crew someplace called the spirit of landsdale..... csx engineer
QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans This will be question number three: again: Can anyone respond to the "naming engines" Do you mean actually painting or putting a sign with a name on the side of an engine,such as "City Of New Orleans" in big white letters. OR are you speaking of simply referring to locomotives by "given" names for some type of indentification or classification. I can't seem to put this question in any simpler terms.
--David
QUOTE: Originally posted by CSXrules4eva QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 csx has named several of its locomotives...and some of the crews have named a few of thier own..... csx has the spirit of waycross...the spirit of***berland...the spirit of west virgina....the spirit grorga...i think thier are a few more out thier..but i dont remember....and i have seen one that showed up at the yard i work at that was hand painted by a crew someplace called the spirit of landsdale..... csx engineer What?/?? I've never head or have seen The Spririt of Lansdale. That's real interesting. I live only live 15 mins from Lansdale and I occasionaly go railfaning there. I live in Wyndmoor, PA right outside of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. I have to keep a sharp look out for that one.!!!! Asides from this I know of many steam locomotives that have names like the Allegheny, Hudsion (spelling), Challlenger,. . .. . .. . . . . . . . .so on so forth. I don't know personally of any diesels that have been given names other than that with two or four letters and some numbers in between.
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