DINGER"Conductor (man who rings the bell)
DINKY"Switch engine without tender, used around back shop and roundhouse, or any small locomotive. Alsoa four-wheel trolleycar
DIPLOMA"Clearance or service letter; fake service letter ...
Dinger
Slang term for yardmaster.
Dinky
Any small, undersized locomotive.
Dinger A yard master. Direct Traffic Control (DTC) System of traffic control with fixed blocks, where block occupancy is granted remotely by a dispatcher. Ordinarily, only one train may occupy a DTC block at a time.
Practical synthetic rubber grew out of studies published in 1930 written independently by American Wallace Carothers, Russian scientist Lebedev and the German scientist Hermann Staudinger.
I really enjoyed the article appearing in the January, '09 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman entitled "East Meets West - Modeling the Rio Grande Southern and East Broad Top", written by Linn Moedinger.
Dinger A yardmaster. Distant Signal A fixed signal outside of a block system, used to govern the approach to a block signal, interlocking signal or switch point indicator.
 See also: Point, Special, Class, Force, Consist
  
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