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I gather that “Jimmy” does refer to a four-wheel ore car, and “Jenny” refers to eight-wheel ore cars.  However, it also appears that the eight-wheel ore cars are sometimes called “Jimmies.”  Likewise, the Jimmies might have been alternatively called Jennies, but the Jimmies disappeared with the advent of the Jennies, so there were no Jimmies to refer to as jennies.  Jimmies continued to be used far beyond the discontinuance of the other four-wheel cars.  Jimmies often ran in relatively long trains.  According to John White’s The American Railroad Freight Car, one source mentions a train of 225 jimmies in 1891. In 1879, a train of jimmies 1.5 miles long was run.  This train consisted of 593 jimmies.    Another name for flat cars was Platform Car.
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