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Museum Discussion / WWandF picture on 2016 Calendar
« on: December 24, 2015, 03:19:34 PM »
Got a 'Steam Trains' calendar for Christmas, which has a photo of #10 in snow for December 2016. Credited to Kevin Madore. Nice shot. dale
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Thanks Keith for bringing this article to our attention. Near the end of the article is this sentence about the materials for the rivets:
"The rivets have to be custom made with just the right mix of materials to have just the right tinsel properties."
The reporter is not writing about Christmas tree decorations here. In the summer of 1948 I worked in the C&O main shops in Huntington, West Virginia, and from that experience I can vouch for the fact that West Virginians do indeed say "tinsel" when they mean "tensile." A couple of others I recall are "arn" for "iron," "MEE-ilk" for "milk," and "He DEE-id?" for "He did?"