[CBQ] Calling motors units.... (was E5 lights)

["William Hirt via groups.io" <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io>]

Leo,

That is interesting.When I was working nights in downtown Kansas City in 
the 1990's, I would take my railroad scanner to work with me. I was 
working with another railfan or two, so they did not mind.
The BN crews and dispatchers always referred to their power as motors. 
So obviously the memo did not make it to the Nebraska Division.
There were still crews on the Kansas City Terminal channel going to the 
Wabash on transfers.
Bill Hirt

On 5/1/2026 10:49 AM, Leo Phillipp via groups.io wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Now you’ve gone and done it?! On the Chicago & Aurora divisions of BN 
> the use of word”motors” to describe locomotives was forbidden 
> somewhere around 1975 or ‘76 by posted notices from management . Said 
> notices stated locomotive were to be referred as such or as units but 
> definitely not as “motors”. Occasionally there were even corrections 
> or chastisement on the radio for using the forbidden term.
> That had been a “Q” term.
>
> Leo Phillipp

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