I've Been Working on the Railroad and I still don't know who Dinah is

thanks for posting that video. I don't know who Dinah is either !

Rufus

The cook.

Great video!

My how times have changed.

Nice to see a long string of boxcars rolling along the line, compared to containers used today.

And did you notice those Alco's smoking?

Rod

I thought Dinah was the one who got to blow the horn...

Phoebe Snow's mother?

As Joe stated above Dinah was the cook. She blew her horn to call the workers to chow.

Unless they are singing about Dinah Shore, but I doubt if she ever played the horn.

I know she saw the USA in her Chevrolet so maybe she did some side work on the railroad between gigs.

You would have to have a very long memory to make the above connection.

Oh Yea Thank You, This was a fun thread.

Mario E.

Sigh.  I qualify.  I even downloaded those old Chevy commercials a couple of years ago in a fit of nostalgia.

Dinah is ole Suzannah's cousin.

Mark

Suzannah cried alot. 

Didn't she once have a variety show & lived near the sea side? (Dinah Shore)

 Didn't she once have a variety show & lived near the sea side? (Dinah Shore)

That was a long long time ago, now she is referred to as a dinosaur.   

Isn't that what happens when she forgets her pain meds?  (Dinah sore?)

Gandalf97 asked: 

Isn't that what happens when she forgets her pain meds?  (Dinah sore?)

You could be right, but I not really shore. 

To be completely honest with you, if Jimmy cracked corn, I don't care.

If Jimmy cracked corn and no one cares,why is there a song about him?

It was cool to see all that LCL freight being unloaded in the video.

Somebody was in the kitchen with Dina.

romiller

Strumming on the old banjo.

The Dinah is where you go for Dinnah!

 "Dinah" was a generic name for an enslaved African woman.

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...king_on_the_Railroad

Didn't she once have a variety show & lived near the sea side? (Dinah Shore)

That was Marianne, sitting on the seashore, shifting sand.

Mark

If Jimmy cracked corn and no one cares,why is there a song about him?

He was supposedly in the grassy knoll at Dallas in 1963. That was his alibi.

Mark

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Someone's in the kitchen, I know ho ho ho

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah.......................

Struming on the ole bango

And singing Fee Fi Fidelee I O

Fee Fi Fidelee I O O O O

Fee Fi Fidelee O..................

Struming on the ole Bango

I guess she was the cook and liked bango struming

This should be the real question, Dinah is Dinah, but WHO was in the kitchen with her????

I thought Who was on first.

That someone is strummin' on the old banjo.

I'm lookin' forward to dinnah in the dinah with Dinah.

This thread is making me hungry.

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I'm lookin' forward to dinnah in the dinah with Dinah.

Nothing could be finah, as long as it's in Carolina.

I think Dinah was born in Nashville!

That was Marianne, sitting on the seashore, shifting sand.

Here's the lyrics:

MARIANNE
Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders - 1957


Marianne, Oh, Marianne, Oh won't you marry me?
We can have a bamboo hut and brandy in the tea,
Leave your fat old Nanna home,
She never will say yes.
If mamma don't know now,
She can guess, my, my, yes.

All night, all day, Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.
Even little children love Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.

When she walks along the shore,
People pause to greet,
While birds fly around her,
Little fish come to her feet.
In her heart is love, but I'm the only mortal man,
Who's allowed to kiss my Marianne,
Don't rush me.

All night, all day, Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.
Even little children love Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.

When we marry, we will have
A time you never saw,
I will be so happy,
I will kiss my mother-in-law.
Children by the dozen, in and out the bamboo hut,
One for every palm tree, and cok-y-nut, Hurry up now.

All night, all day, Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.
Even little children love Marianne,
Down by the seaside sifting sand.

And:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cuvB2XrP_M

This post will be in the archives FOREVER!!!!  

Funny Stuff Guys,
 Original Dinors were actual dining cars on railways. When a dining car was no longer fit for service, it was often employed as a cheap restaurant near a train station.
 I think I will name my layouts “Greasy Spoon” Dinah’s Dinor. …. I’m from N/W Pa.

If you have a Diner on your layout, what did you name it?

Thanks Everyone!!

B.N.

I thinking of a Hitler puppet. (You have to be a fan of the Carol Burnett Show to get that).