"lashed together" or "lashup" is sure used a lot in model railroad
publications...but I have NEVER heard a real railroad employee use the
term....(it brings to mind cowboys on horses chasing locomotives, roping them,
and tying them together!? LOL.
Never mind...now ?I'm getting too silly here.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger T. <rogertra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 8:42 pm
Subject: Re: [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
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Steam locos were never "lashed together". They were "double headed" or
"triple headed" etc.
"Lash-up" and or "lashed" together is , I believe, a term that only came
into use during the diesel era and is/was I believe, a purely railfan term.
Cheers.
Roger T.
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http://www.islandnet.com/~rogertra/ ;
