Oh no, what's this "undefined" word that TRAINS is using? :-)

sorry, but I like poking Rich in the ribs.  All in fun, of course.

- walt

As soon as I saw "undefined" in the headline, I knew someone had used the dreaded "lash-up." 

Walt has a penchant for stirring the pot, occasionally.

Is this like division by zero?

I don't get why people don't like the "lash-up" term. They claim it's inaccurate yet it seems everyone uses it. LOL

TRAINS ans OGR do not have the same editor.  Actually, they are owned by different people, so they cannot MU or do that "L" word!

Well, it's obvious that this term has been used in some other media not a part of the OGR family.  No one in the OGR family would ever allow the use of the term.  Even real railroaders have been known to have been chastised severely by the editor for a serious violation of the railroad terminology.  After all, if no such thing exists, how could anyone be able to do it?

"Lash-up" just doesn't sound very railroady; reminds me a bit of hearing a steam loco
tender referred to as a "coal car". But it's so convenient.

'Course, I run (pretty much) a steam road, so we neither lash nor MU. We "-head".

Gee, I don't know about that.  I kind of like the term because it "fits" in a sentence better and is more descriptive to most folks, i.e.:

"Ted lashed-up the two locomotives and then proceeded to...."

vs--

"Ted MU'ed the two locomotives...."

However, the boss (he's a real railroader and I'm not) doesn't like it so we (OGR) generally try to avoid it.  Despite our best efforts, it does manage to slip into the magazine from time to time. 

Who's going to buy the rope to put this lashup together? Don't tie off to the hand rails. They bend. 

My "official" comment = two wrongs don't make a right.

"Lashup"  -  what a horrible term. 

You keep it up Walt. This is fun!

LOL

"Don't tie off to the hand rails. They bend."

I almost fell off of my chair, Rich!

-Greg

Rich,

I'm looking through the CFR right now!!!!

SAM

According to Wikipedia's Glossary of rail transport terms; in the section that addresses Multiple-unit train control,  it states that "lash-up" is the colloquial term for consist. 

Granted, "consisting" sounds better than "lash-uping".  

I've been around a long time, and I've never heard the term lash-up used to describe an entire train (a consist).  Have only heard it used in regard to the connecting of multiple power units.

If Wikipedia tells me "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.", I would prefer to check it out tomorrow morning!

Where did you get a reference to an entire train from my post?   Read my post again and you'll see that I was referring to the section  addressing  Multiple-unit train control.  That section talks about diesel or electric locomotives being "joined together to form a consist, and are said to be "MUed" together". 

There is another section addressing the term "consist" and its various uses/meanings, including the entire train.  There is no mention of "lash-up" there.

Well, however you lash-em up, just be careful when going through the switches.

I have a one track mind. Unfortunately my train of thought is often derailed.

Actually, their reference(45) is "Glossary Of Common Railroad Terms", by Kalmbach Publishing.  

Ahhh, Kalmbach.

That obviously makes it the honest-to-God gospel truth, absolutely correct and never to be challenged.  

I could reference  OGR's own Guide to the TrainMaster Command System video starring the OGR Webmaster.   Surely that contains honest to God gospel truth, absolutely correct and never to be challenged.  

My older copy contains much reference to creating, well; you know what.  

There's something kinky sounding about the word lashup.

Yes, there are many uses of the dreaded word 'LASHUP' in that video. You'll hear it in our DCS video, too. You hear it because that is the term the manufacturers used, and that's the term that appears in the instructions. I didn't LIKE to say it, but I had to do it. 

As for the video and the on-camera host giving you the honest-to-God truth...I don't know. That guy on the video looks pretty shady to me. 

All this discussion makes me want to head out to the train room and hitch a couple of steamers together to make me a lashup!  

This lashup talk is getting scrapple like.

On a serious note (I know, who asked for serious on a thread like this), many of the comments refer to MU-ing.  Since that term generally applies to diesel or electric locomotive, and MU-ing means to tie them together with all the necessary control and power lines and air hoses, perhaps that's where the L word originated?

The problem isn't with the language; it's with the people who use it.

I had always thought a "lashup" was how Boy Scouts built those cool pioneering towers and bridges out of rope and logs....