Re: Oh yeah, some “sports model” centerfold action!

Earl Wrote:
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> Always found it interesting that the nick-names
> "Mudhen" and "Sport Model" seemed to have caught
> on with both the railroaders and railfans.
> However the nick-name "Baby Grande" for the 480's
> did not.


I will always believe that the 'sports model' nickname--if it was ever used at all, by railroad men--must have originated as sarcasm. "Oh, it can do 45? We got a real sport model here boys! (rolleyes)." Those things were nobody's idea of fast in an era of 80 MPH passenger express trains. Even on the same narrow gauge the T-12's were as fast or faster.