BRHSLIST
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [CBQ] Doodlebugs on the Burlington

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Doodlebugs on the Burlington
From: Richard Wallis <vandalialine@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:39:58 -0700 (PDT)
Delivered-to: archives@nauer.org
Delivered-to: mailing list CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoogroups.com; s=lima; t=1272584405; bh=u9TO7Xy0CD2Uqd79PS4Z0B7kBpeF0Zy/9lxKXYCtfcg=; h=Received:Received:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Sender:X-Apparently-To:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:X-Received:Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:X-Received:X-Mailer:To:In-Reply-To:X-Originating-IP:X-eGroups-Msg-Info:From:X-Yahoo-Profile:Sender:MIME-Version:Mailing-List:Delivered-To:List-Id:Precedence:List-Unsubscribe:Date:Subject:Reply-To:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XflTBPy/yRMFImkxmEEdjxs+7/vZi/zrfTcbrpHd+tgFlYj1DJdrPVHOzsN9h/gokGnY6kemfr7rgJpDPdge3qRPwiZgTzjQ6F8cJqvKqhDEyRIINkHMlu04hPmRzFAO
Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com; b=cLmB1J0tOBQqZYMvdXz01+WzV2gTGr6GOxQ8QfLqGEh0GaxwutzHWDTL9e7RdPZXdkHAo7UJ8zMDPREKpxJ7xuQ6Jrjm7zY9NzsDtb0kn92Bx742kQ1sUlWRiWTR8gOy;
In-reply-to: <p2i7e37b8cc1004291619pf5e74c85q2d7d07efa5eac95b@mail.gmail.com>
List-id: <CBQ.yahoogroups.com>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Mailing-list: list CBQ@yahoogroups.com; contact CBQ-owner@yahoogroups.com
Reply-to: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sender: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Kenneth Fleming <kf5632@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not Doodlebugs, we called them
> Puddle-Jumpers.  My father was a Conductor on
> them in the early 1920's.

My background is PRR, and we didn't call them doodlebugs either.  I first 
"heard" the term in "Trains" magazine, and early on figured it was a western 
thing--it wasn't.  I really don't like the Doodlebug term: It's demeaning and 
denigrates the concept.  We called them "gas-cars," even after dieselization.  


My grandfather's last run in 1955 was on a Brill 350.

Richard Wallis
 


      


------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    CBQ-digest@yahoogroups.com 
    CBQ-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>