Ya, than how come I have a femailman?

Joel

Does this boring exchange have anything to do with freight cars?(:))

Staffan Ehnbom

For sure, for sure good buddy. (:-)



Back in steam days freight cars were always being shuffled in and out of
turnout yards.



John Hagen



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Does this boring exchange have anything to do with freight cars?(:))

Staffan Ehnbom

--- In STMFC@..., "soolinehistory" <destorzek@...> wrote:

--- In STMFC@..., w m <bulletmims@> wrote:

I agree with Mike. "Throwing a turnout" (and "throwing a switch") is commonly used by those who work in the railroad industry (although it is not usually literally done in anger)...

Harumpf! The operating people on a railroad have very little idea what a turnout is, since all they deal with is the switch.

I don't know it I would necessarily agree with that as a blanket statement. I have MOP employee timetables from the 1950's, in the Special instructions item 3-C is titled "THROUGH TURNOUTS AND CROSSOVERS, AND SPRING SWITCHES". So, I would expect that the trainmen and yard crews would know what the turnout was even if they only lined the points.

George Simmons
Dry Prong, LA

Greetings,

I think I heard that the confusion with
switch and turnout was because Model Railroader
style guide dictated that turnout was to be used
to avoid conflict with an electrical switch, as in
throw the toggle switch to move the turnout.

Michael

I think I heard that the confusion with
switch and turnout was because Model Railroader
style guide dictated that turnout was to be used
to avoid conflict with an electrical switch, as in
throw the toggle switch to move the turnout.

Michael

<snip>

In CSX's 2011 annual report (p. 12) it says "...and track that diverts trains from one track to another known as turnouts."

Mike Calo
Glen Burnie MD

But yet we don't have turnout stands or turnoutmen, hmmmmmmm
Chuck Hladik


In a message dated 4/28/2012 5:13:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
navyfan696@... writes:

I think I heard that the confusion with
switch and turnout was because Model Railroader
style guide dictated that turnout was to be used
to avoid conflict with an electrical switch, as in
throw the toggle switch to move the turnout.

Michael

<snip>

In CSX's 2011 annual report (p. 12) it says "...and track that diverts
trains from one track to another known as turnouts."

Mike Calo
Glen Burnie MD

--- In STMFC@..., RUTLANDRS@... wrote:

But yet we don't have turnout stands or turnoutmen, hmmmmmmm
Chuck Hladik

That joke is getting tiresome. Consider this; perhaps switchmen aren't called that because they line switches, but rather because they switch cars.

Dennis

On Apr 28, 2012, at 2:33 PM, soolinehistory wrote:

--- In STMFC@..., RUTLANDRS@... wrote:

But yet we don't have turnout stands or turnoutmen, hmmmmmmm
Chuck Hladik

That joke is getting tiresome. Consider this; perhaps switchmen
aren't called that because they line switches, but rather because
they switch cars.

Dennis

That, at least, has something vaguely to do with freight cars (the
list topic, remember?), which almost all other posts on this topic
emphatically do not. Where are our group leaders when we need them?

Richard Hendrickson