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- Back in the Civil War, the D&H was using four-wheel "jimmies"
(a corruption of "engine" from the original meaning of the word
for a clever contraption - also giving us "spinning jenny" and
"cotton gin").
- [Photo from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]
- By the late 1870's, the cars had gotten
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NEB&W Guide to D&H Gondola Cars