Re: Running Boards!
| September 06, 2016 12:56AM |
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dougvv Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Not arguing. I just had understood that running
> boards were the places to stand on steamers on
> front or on the back of the tender. Learn
> something new every day.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Doug vV
Depends on your local terminology, my Uncle's 1935 car had running boards, what you probably call walkways on the side of the boiler and along hoods of Diesels are known here as running boards, as are the longitunal steps on the side of shunter's wagons seen here in front of our Dsb.
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> Hi,
>
> Not arguing. I just had understood that running
> boards were the places to stand on steamers on
> front or on the back of the tender. Learn
> something new every day.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Doug vV
Depends on your local terminology, my Uncle's 1935 car had running boards, what you probably call walkways on the side of the boiler and along hoods of Diesels are known here as running boards, as are the longitunal steps on the side of shunter's wagons seen here in front of our Dsb.
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