Re: Tipple? Pedantics?

Skip Wrote:

>
> Second: As a retired underground miner and amateur
> mining historian, it galls me to hear the
> structure called a "Tipple." Tipple is a
> coal-mining term, used mainly in the east. Out
> here in the Hardrock mining west, they are not
> tipples but normally "ore bins" or sometimes "rock
> houses." The Model Railroad and Railfan
> communities seem to be trying to perpetuate this
> misnomer. I wrote into Railfan and Railroad
> magazine in the 80's concerning said misuse and my
> epistle was published.
>
> Does it matter? I don't know ..... just seems that
> we should use the proper terminology, just as we
> should when discussing steam locomotives, etc.

I am with u on the naming Skip. Thanks for bring it to the forefront.

Tom C.

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