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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by fiverings "Blind" is an archaic term--it means the end of a passenger car or baggage car that is without steps and a platform for the boarding and detraining of passengers. To "ride the blinds" was hobo slang for riding between the blind ends of 2 adjacent cars (or between the tender and the first car, if the first car had a blind end facing the tender). The idea was to avoid detection by the crew. Obviously it was a dangerous practice, and old timers still tell stories of finding hobos frozen to death "in the blinds." --John [/quote] John [:)] You must have found my post from way back in this thread. Man that seems ages ago now. As I said in one of my posts I have read stories about the NYC [:)] scooping water from their track pans while on the fly. When the tender became full the water would flo through a pipe to the back of the tender and come out there. People who would be back there were given an involuntary bath. During the winter the water was heated but the bet the temperature wasn't all that hot. Probally just above freezing by a little and that was it, that is my guess. The thought of that cold water in the cold winter send shivers down my spine. (Oh, never mind, that was just Duchess cold nose. [:o)] )
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