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From: <bob5632@y...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Dinky
> I grew up in Hinsdale at this same time period, and never heard the
> suburban trains refered to as dinkies.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Denny Anspach" <danspach@m...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:34 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Dinky
>
>
> > As a child and young adult in the 40's and '50s, the Burlington's
> > suburban service was coin of the realm in my daily life. Never did I
> > ever hear of these trains or services referred to as "dinkies", or a
> > "dinky". That is not to say that they may not have been referred to
> > in this manner by the dispatchers, or by the crews, but it certainly
> > did not seem to be a term commonly used by, or known by the great
> > unwashed.
> >
> > Denny
> > --
> > Denny S. Anspach, MD
> > Sacramento, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
The first I recall ever hearing the term "dinky" was when Tom Dissell left
the Northern Pool for a "good dinky" as Conductor. That was early 60s.
Anyone remember him? Always impeccably dressed; shoes highly polished,
trousers with a razor crease, tie in a perfect windsor, not a hair out of
place.
BRAD
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