TRP Locomotive Notes

[travelingengineer]

Learning as I presently am trying to do, I am still perplexed by the section of The Railroad Press (TRP) magazine entitled "Ken Ardinger's Locomotive Notes II."  What information does this convey?  I cannot find any explanation within the magazine, nor within the section itself, explaining what it is all about, nor definitions of the many abbreviations.  I suppose the information therein is valuable, but why and to whom?  Thanks for your kind responses.

[tree68]

Any given issue may contain nothing of interest to you, or might hold a valuable nugget.  Not everyone follows motive power movements, etc, but, f'rinstance, I'll check the shortline section to see if there's anything about the lines I know about, and do about the same with the historical section.

 

[travelingengineer]

Thank you "tree68" for your kind and prompt reply.  Am I to understand that the subject list is of every known (USA) locomotive, living or "dead," active or museum piece, in-service or out-of-service?  Wow!

[tree68]

travelingengineer

Am I to understand that the subject list is of every known (USA) locomotive, living or "dead," active or museum piece, in-service or out-of-service? 

More like what gets reported to the editor of the column by correspondents around the country.  I wouldn't consider it to be the "end all and be all" of such information.  More like if you know that locomotive 1234 on the ABC RR has been sold to the XYZ RR, you send him a note and it ends up in the column.