Re: [CBQ] Re: Equipment names

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

You guys probably all know the story....if you don't you should....It was Ralph Budd, because of his knowledge of Chaucer's  "Canterbury Tales"...that he grabbed the name ZEPHRUS...."God of the east wind"...for the Q's new train.

Pete

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From: jonathanharris@earthlink.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 5, 2015 6:17 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Equipment names

 

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licour

Of which vertu engendred is the flour,

Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open ye

(so priketh hem Nature in hir corages),

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

And specially from every shires ende

Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,

The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

Yes, I'd say at least some of them Q folk were quite literate.

---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <sjl_prodigynet@...> wrote :

There is a double meaning in the use of the Silver adjective for the original DZ cars, referring to both the stainless steel thereof and an historically important Colorado export. This was not the only time the Q folks took advantage of a double meaning. The Twin Zephyr name referred to both service to the Twin Cities and the fact that two identical trains provided the service.

Them Q folk were quite literate.

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