Class Names
Most locomotives were given simple codes, but some classes were named, formally or not.
- The Union Pacific Big Boy class was said to have been given that name when it was scrawled on the smokebox of one at the factory.
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad P-7 class was referred to as the "President" class because initially each locomotive had the name of a U.S. President on the cab.
- Also on the B&O, the S and S-1 classes were referred to as "Big Sixes" because the road numbers began with 6.
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Famous quotes containing the words class and/or names:
“Mankind divides itself into two classes,—benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)