Let’s list some of the railroadey terms for basic things.
#1 has to be grinding stones for grinding wheels.
Jitney = van
fusee = flare
tricks = shifts
Go ahead… add some more. We can even regional-ize or localize the railroadey terms if you want to.
caboose=cabeese
cabins = caboose around here.
How about hogger, or hog head for engineer.
Bull= railroad detective, or cop, at least around here.
Tim
Nope, try waycar …shoving platform …crummy …
…elephant tracker … cinder dick …special agent …
Then you can spot a load.
Or you can place a car.
Then that car that you spotted can become a placecar. “Put the empties behind that placecar”.
When you place that placecar, be sure to tie one on, sting one on, tie it down, spin one on, and anchor it.
…or just chunk it. …got a skate?
Nah, but there’s a blocker.
Hey, wait a minute, that was my favorite stick…
Joint- coupling
Cover-buffer car
[:)] Are "carknockers " still alive and on the job??
Yard Goat
Beanery
Mudchicken
Yellow Thingie
The term “Grinding stone” is not specific to the Railroad industry, it is used for other types of grinding/polishing equipment but nowadays it may be somewhat archaic. If you Google search the term you will get a lot of hits for suppliers of industrial tools/supples, but when you go to the linked websites they are more commonly called wheels…
May you never be anywhere close to LORAM/SPENO when the stones learn to fly.[;)]
armstrong - manually powered; bad order; - beans; - big hook; - brownie; - drag; - drill; - drop; -Johnson bar; - kick; - leg (one half of wye); - meet; - cnfield meet; - cruimmy; dead head;; - gandy dancer; - highball; - in the hole; - on the ground; - outlawed; - sand house; - shoo fly; - varnish; - flimsy
Thats all for now
Early quit
Screw the pooch
Tie up
Grab iron
Anglecock
Bad order
Big hole
Buckle the rubbers
Cornfield meet
Drop
Dutch drop
Flimsy
Flying switch
Goat
Saw-by
Shoo-fly
Light engine; engine running light
Oh, yes, but not done often today: quartering the main drivers.
Time to test the modac:
Big-hole the Westinghouse
Bad joint
Lazy cock
Broken injector
Blown head
Humping (with the original location being Honeypot)
Pinch bar
Ice gang
Sleepy R— C.P.R.
Flanger
Goat