Railroad Lingo TT00024

DateTime	Author	Posting
12/04/2002 10:00 PM	Jim Fredrickson	Following is a very incomplete list of railroad terminology Air brake repairman Air Monkey Assumed Name Flag Bad Order Cripple Block of cars coupled together Cut Book of Rules Company Bible Brakeman Shack Caboose Cage Caboose Crummy Caboose Hack Caboose Way Car Car end "A" non brake end Car end "B" Brake end Car on railroad not its owner Foreign car Car on which defect sends brakes to emergency Dynamiter Car Repair Track Rip Track Carman Car Knocker Carman Car Toad Clear Track in Railroad Yard Alley Clerk Mud Hop Collision - Head on Cornfield Meet Company doctor Croaker Contents of train Consist Coupler Drawbar and knuckle Crew in pool service working 1st in, 1st out Chain Gang Cut train in half to go up hill in two parts Double Defective car or equipment Bad Order Demerits Brownies Demoted or Discharged Dehorned Dispatcher Delayer Drifter - goes from one railroad to another Boomer Emergency stop Big Hole Employee riding on a pass Deadhead Engine pilot Cowcatcher Engineer Eagle Eye Engineer Hogger Engineer Hoghead Engineer Throttle Artist Engineer - Fast Ballast Scorcher Equipment operated by muscular effort Armstrong Field Man Yard switchman Fireman Ashcat Fireman Bakehead Fireman Coal Heaver Fireman Fire Boy Flagging close to caboose Drawbar flagging Front part of engine cab Deck Hobo Box Car Tourist Hours of Service-Relieve on Road Dog Catch Hours of Service Law Hog Law Inspection - moving Roll By Investigation Dancing on the Carpet Little, old steam locomotive Coffeepot Locomotive Hog Locomotive - Electric Juice Jack Locomotive (Switch Goat Motor car Galloping Goose Obtain position by exercising seniority Bump Official Brass Hat or Brass for short Opposite of Boomer Home Guard Passenger car Cushions Policeman Cinder Dick Policeman Flatfoot Policeman Gum Shoe Policeman Yard Bull Refrigerator car Freezer Refrigerator car Reefer Restaurant Beanery Restaurant - Waitress Beanery Queen Roundhouse Barn Section laborer Gandy Dancer or Gandy Set hand brakes on still cars Anchor Them Signal - Clear on Mail Line High Green Signal - Proceed Highball Signals - Fixed Boards Slow Freight Drag Switch Gate Switch - Change position Bend the iron Switch - Line behind train Highball the Gate Switch move where cars are cut off & coast Drop Switchman Snake (SUNA Trademark) Tank car Can Telegrapher Brass Pounder Telegrapher Lighting Slinger Telegrapher's handwriting Fist Track - Main Line High Iron Train carrying signals for following section Carrying Green Train in siding In the clear or in the hole Train Order Flimsy Two sets of tracks on a scale Dead Iron and Live Iron Unassigned employees Extra Board When a car not in clear is struck by engine Cornered Working the Extra Board Bucking the Board Wrecker Big Hook terminology Compiler C Frissell