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Charlie Vlk
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What item pertaining to railroads would be "a magazine". This is in the context of an item of value that could be sold by a thief.....not a publication. Asking for an author who is attempting to have accurate information in a book that he is writing. Charlie Vlk |
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Jerry Michels
This is confusing Charlie, help me out. Jerry Michels |
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Charlie,
The only thing I could think of would be something like a magazine for a weapon, like a pistol or rifle, such as might be used by Railroad Police or a Railroad Postal Service employee. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL |
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Wallace Steinbrecher
One other possibility would be a magazine used for the storage of torpedoes and fusees. Regards, Wallace Steinbrecher On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 9:56 AM Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote: Charlie, |
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Philip Dove
What era is the original reference? Is it USA or Canada, do you know the ethnicity of the original person using the phrase. English is a constantly changing and diverse family of languages. I have looked in various slang dictionaries, English and American, a railway dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary. All l can come up with is that a magazine is some kind of storage device that automatically offers up the next one like a magazine on a pistol or slide projector. Or it can be a military store usually for ammunition and weapons or more rarely anything used by the military. Mag is short for magneto as found on a car. Mag is an obselete prefix for an operator of fraudulent gambling games. A Mags man is a safe breaker iirc. |
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Don't forget the slightly different vocabulary of English speaking Canadians...let alone the regional differences within the un-United States...
-- Ken Adams Covid Variants may come and go but I choose to still live mostly in splendid Shelter In Place solitude Location: About half way up Walnut Creek Owner PlasticFreightCarBuilders@groups.io |
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Ehh? Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
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Kevin NGMC On 2022-10-13 10:51, Ken Adams wrote:
Don't forget the slightly different vocabulary of English speaking --
Kevin Macomber NGMC (717) 474-8399 www.narrowgaugemodeling.com |
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Magazine also = a place where goods or supplies are stored: Warehouse. Obviously, they can't steal a warehouse but could steal FROM a warehouse. Doug Paasch On Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 9:57 AM Kevin Macomber <sales@...> wrote: Ehh? Sorry, I couldn't help myself. |
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A Clemens
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:37 PM Doug Paasch <drpaasch@...> wrote:
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Charlie/all,
Magazine was a common term for a "large clip of ammo" such as the round ones that were used for Tommy Guns. Magazine was also used for "the place where you store ammunition". Both of these terms were in common use during WW-II ... and before? ... and into the fifties. - Jim who is back in the PNW |
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