[PRCo] Re: Why Railfans Perhaps Should Refrain From Technical Analysis

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Industries do have a way of taking bits and pieces of the language and
incorporating them into their own dialect, which they then use to the
exclusion of normal English (or whatever).  Their fans then pick it up
because they want to mimic what they like, vicariously (or otherwise)
joining that industry.  In retrospect, the slavish devotion to it in
repetitiously captioning photos, for example, suggests that a lot of folks
didn't have nearly enough to do, and didn't really know what was important.

Incidentally, there are a handful of these negatives that have merit beyond
roster shots.  There's a great view of a car sitting in the Canonsburg wye
during the 1946 Duquesne Light strike, and another at Carnegie Loop with two
cars around the building...looks like one extremely long PCC!

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Why Railfans Perhaps Should Refrain From Technical
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Amusing isn't it.  Eight notches do not constitute multiple notches.   But
surprisingly, the industry did use the term multi-notch when using more than
the
normal number of notches, such as PCM with 18 notches.  So they too were not
immune from butchering the language.  Maybe its an American thing.

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> I encountered the following bit of "information" on an envelope containing
a
> Charlie Dengler negative recently donated to PTM:
>
> "Note:  There are resistance grids under the rear end.  This test car
[5404]
> had a multi-notch K controller, instead of the regular 8 notch job."
>
> All in a day's laugh.
>
> Ed