Everybody, railroader and nonrailroader alike, called
the Passenger Motor Car assigned to trains 11 & 12, in
southern Illinois, the "Dinky". That term was also
used for the tank engines, (and later 44 toners) used
by the coal companies at their mines.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- Charlie Vlk <charlie@k...> wrote:
> Interestingly, the same was true for the Chicago &
> Northwestern. A 99 year
> old friend of mine grew up in Clinton, Iowa and for
> a while his dad worked
> for the Northwestern in Fulton across the river.
> The local employee
> accommodation train was known as the "scoot" which
> is the C&NW equivalent of
> "dinky" in the Chicago area for commuter runs.
> I disremember all the terms used in Chicago but I
> know the Milwaukee, GM&O,
> IC, PRR, and Wabash all had their own different
> nicknames for suburban
> service trains and may have parallel usage for
> branchline / employee
> accommodation service as well.
> Charlie Vlk
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WPDiven@a... [mailto:WPDiven@a...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:59 AM
> > To: Aeolus3@a...; BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] question (revised)
> >
> >
> >
> > Greetings list:
> >
> > Noted several comments along the lines of:
> >
> > << "Dinky" was/is a Suburban Train. >>
> >
> > Ogle County 100 miles west of Chicago still isn't
> very
> > surburban and was even
> > less so in the older days. Folks in farm country,
> or at
> > least some of my
> > relatives born in the 1920s, called the mixed
> Oregon-Mount
> > Morris turn The
> > Dinky.
> >
> > Since they picked up the nickname as kids, I
> assume it
> > predates the 1932
> > abandonment of ex-Chicago & Iowa track between Mt.
> Morris and
> > Forreston. No
> > idea when the name came into use but suppose it
> could be a sarcastic
> > reference--jargon picked up from a grumbling
> trainman?--
> > given the way the
> > line was downgraded after Oregon-Savanna replaced
> > Oregon-Forreston as the
> > main line in 1886. Maybe someone else can fill in
> the history of
> > passenger/mixed service on the branch.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Diven
> >
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