- 1. question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: drale99@a...
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:54:51 EST
- What was a "dinky"?
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00026.html (6,464 bytes)
- 2. Re: question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:53:10 -0900
- Does anyone know the origin of the term "pinger," applied to CB&Q transfer runs? Jonathan
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00033.html (6,675 bytes)
- 3. Re: question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: "dave_lotz" <Dave_Lotz@m...>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:02:12 -0600
- The only place I've heard it referenced was for trains across the Missouri rive Bridge at Sioux City. Burlington's trains were using the ageing Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha's Missouri River
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00034.html (8,032 bytes)
- 4. Re: question (revised) (score: 1)
- Author: jonathanharris@e...
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:55:09 -0900
- Thanks, Mike! If you mean it "pings" like a ping-pong ball bouncing back and forth over a short distance, that etymology makes perfect sense. --jonathan -- Hi Jonathan: They call the light power that
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2002-02/msg00052.html (7,221 bytes)
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