Klarinet Archive - Posting 000524.txt from 2004/03

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Trainspotter - just a smidge off topic guys!!!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:09:22 -0500

From OED: Trainspotter - One (esp. a small boy) whose hobby is
observing trains and recording railway locomotive numbers. Hence
train-spotting vbl. n.; train-spot v. intr.

Erik

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

>There is a task called "spotting a car" which means positioning a
>freight car at the proper position during the evening so that a crew can
>begin unloading it the following morning. That was the closest I could
>come to understanding "closed trainspotting".
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