Here's one term I always got a kick out of...I don't know if any of you have
ever heard this term before. My best friend from high school, (who was from
Powell River, B.C.), always called the couplers on trains, the "tag-a-long" or
"tag-a-longs". Has anyone else ever heard couplers called the "tag-a-longs"?
Rick
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From: Dave & Marilyn Pottinger <dandm.pottinger@xxxxxxxx>
To: CPSIGgroup <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 7:14 pm
Subject: [cpsig] RE: CPR D-10 from sunset
Apparently "lashed together" must be one of those quaint expressions that only
we North Americans use to describe how the steam engineers kept their double
and triple heads together. I was not aware that diesels are connected to each
other differently from how steam engines were connected to each other -
couplers, isn't it?
Dave Pottinger
Re: CPR D-10 from sunset
Posted by: "Roger T." rogertra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rogertra
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 7:57 pm ((PST))
You don't "Lash together" steam, only diesels.
OK… so how about couple two or three together and the engineers try to keep
them all at the same speed sound instead?
