I remember the term "Dinky" being attributed to the special 0-6-2 Tank
engines built for commuter service. They were small engines (without
tenders) and the name applied to them got generalized to all suburban
trains.
On a related subject, does anyone have any information on the location of
the Lyons station c.1861-1869? I seem to remember trying to calculate its
position by using mileages from stations that did not move too much (since
the Chicago terminal did move two times) and placing the original Lyons
station on the west side of the DesPlaines River about the location of First
Avenue. The Riverside Historical Society has an Omstead plat map showing a
brick station in the middle of a passing siding, with two mains to the
north, all merging to a single main across the river at about the same
location as the present station. They have no record of the turntable and
engine house at Riverside.
Charlie Vlk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Millick [mailto:smillick@c...]
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> we had one through Litchfield that was an engine, mail and
> passenger all in
> one car
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> At 06:37 PM 02/04/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >On the Burlington, a Dinky was a dispatchers name for a
> commuter train. It
> >comes from the fact that a commuter was a "Dinky" train on
> the triple
> >track main as compared to a freight that was longer.
> >
> >I am sure several others will jump in on this.
> >Tom Koch
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> >From: Bob Weber <eng95@a...>
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> >It's a small locomotive used for switching in a yard.
> >
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> > > What was a "dinky"?
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