Thanks for the details, Keith. I kinda sorta thought that might have been the diff, but in NYC where I grew up we only had sleds, and the only toboggans I saw were pictures illustrating stories from the early 20th and 19th centuries. I just thought they were "old fashioned" sleds.
Speaking of dinosaurs: http://home.earthlink.net/~pdml-pics/sue05.html Shel > From: Keith Whaley > > A sled has two steel runners, to run on packed snow or ice. > A toboggan is flat on the bottom, made of long wood strips bent up at > the front, to slide across deep snow without sinking in [...] > Or, at least that's how they USED to be made, back in this old > dinosaur's times... <g>
