Todays RR slang - High Daddy
yesterdays word that no one guessed , dinger,general,ring master = yardmaster
YGW: I sent you a PM explaining what can be done in this thread so it doesn’t get deleted.
I don’t want to see your pig greased!
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A Google search with “railroad lingo”, “Railroad terminology”, “railroad slang”. will have a lot of information.
Who can tell us what were “covered wagons” mostly in the 1950’s?
Drop a little, go fast and Grease the pig are both the same thing. Oil the loco.
As far as I know a ‘Covered wagon’ in RR slang is a car body loco. E unit, F unit, PA, etc. I have a bunch of covered wagons.
Yea I havent heard "covered wagon " either . Be interested in hearing that one. Jeffs sound logical.
Okay new word :
" Crystal Place "
Railroad speak.
After the Hobson man passes,engine #1677,we will make our move and set out Pattons then,we will pick up at Lyman’s.We’ll leave the cabin and and and the last ten where they sit and proceed to Stocks and pick up those work cars…Place those behind the cabin with red flag protection.
Then we will wait on 2nd Hobson engine 5787.
High St. said we have a hour and half before we need to clear things up…
Larry ! You stole my thunder . After I put enough slang out I was going to put them together and see if anyone could make aout what was being said . LOL !
Okay anyone have the meaning of Crystal Palace ?
That’s the railroad president business car-usually a observation.
Hmmm ? i have Company headquarters . Okay
New word for Tuesday : Elephant style
A consist with all the units nose to tail.
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YUP. Jeff is right.
I have a number of magazines and articles about the last running "Covered Wagons " in California and they are talking about the F7s. But other articles call all the full width Car Bodies. EMD. Es, Fs. and Alco PAs and even some Erie builds being refered to as "Covered Wagons.I think this came from being only able to look forward from the Head-end, much like the wagons of old.If you tried to look back, you had to stick your head out the window and physically look back and the view was impared by the wide sides., Which was the main reason they went to “Tunnel Motors”, so that from inside the Cab you can look forward and backward whick truly aids in switching movements and also checking on equipment while on the move forward. Hot boxes, etc.
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Regarding cabooses, cabins, waycars, vans, etc. I have often seen these cars referred to as “crummies” in the RR press, but have never actualy heard a railroader use the term. My question is, on what railroad(s) was the term “crummy” actually used by railroaders when referring to a caboose?
A lot of these terms ar either railroad or region specific. In the midwest, the CB&Q called diesel locomotives ‘motors’, and cabooses ‘way cars’. What most modelers call a ‘dwarf’ signal, the ‘Q’ called then ‘pot’ signals, and the Milwaukee Road called then ‘dummy’ signals or ‘Bugs’. In St Paul Union Depot, slip switches were ‘puzzle switches’.
Jim
Old line PRR conductors call the caboose cabins while the younger conductors called them a caboose and some unprintable names if the cabin was in poor shape-small holes in the floor,a piece of plywood covering the door window,steel plate welded over a large hole in the floor etc…
On the C&O it was hack by some old liners or simply caboose by the majority.
Call a engineer a hogger and you may be picking yourself up off the ground since the term “hogger” was a senior employee that hogged time by not taking his alloted days off.Also a hogger was a hog farmer and a hog farm stinks…Again you might be picking yourself up off the ground.
Remember a lot of railroad slang is was made up by modelers and railfans-there is no lash up of motive power it is locomotive or motor consist.We didn’t speak in a secrete code.
There is no locomotive phases…Its simply the locomotive type.
A turnout was what the engineering department called a switch to the operating crews,MOW crews, tower operator and dispatcher its a switch.You unlocked a switch lock.
Man or that man was a name for a train like in my example.Today they use the train number or symbol. C&O Man was of course a C&O train that would go first on the (say) C&O/PRR crossing.
In my 9 1/2 years of railroading I never seen a meal or pot of coffee made in the caboose nor was the toilet used-the commode held extra supplies like air hoses,knuckles.I have seen the engineer and fireman heat soup in the engine departme
You got it !
Brakie - I had no idea about Hogger , Man I love the background or rest of the story you and others bring to this discussion !
Okay new Word for today :
- Glory Hunter -
Hogger (hogshead) is a tough one to interpret. many variations.
Try: Cinder Dick
Pinch Bar
Cinder Dick:Railroad cop or ARF peeking around the corner.
Glory Hunter …
Is a up and coming ARF that reports every little rule or safety infraction as he climbs up the ladder to Division Superintendent and hopefully beyond to corporate office…
Larry
What is an ARF ? The source I am using defination of Glory hunter differs from yours. I have Reckless , fast running engineer. What is your slang for this ?
New term ; jack’n the throttle
ARF: Assistant Road foreman.
Reckless , fast running engineer.
A short timer(meaning he will be fired for his carelessness) or Mr. Johnny Overspeed…
My replies is based on the lingo we spoke when I worked on the PRR and Chessie/C&O.
I thought it would be a fun thing to use modern(60-80s that is) lingo.