Railroaders' Nostalgia > Classifications and Definitions

There's some truth here!

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Ha! Love it.

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Those definitions resemble many characters I knew or worked with !

Yardmaster should have been included.

goldcoast Wrote:
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> Yardmaster should have been included.

Take a shot at it. 
- A switchman that always dropped the pin when kicking cars blaming it on the slack and who always wanted to be a General.

I recall a similar list of humorous definitions. Conductor: "________ (brakeman?) displaying pocket protector, with or without pencils."

Perhaps someone can help find that "dictionary" of railroad terms online. 

colehour Wrote:
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> I recall a similar list of humorous definitions.
> Conductor: "________ (brakeman?) displaying pocket
> protector, with or without pencils."
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> Perhaps someone can help find that "dictionary" of
> railroad terms online. 

Rule Book definition of a Train.
 

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Ozolian Wrote:
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> colehour Wrote:
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> > I recall a similar list of humorous
> definitions.
> > Conductor: "________ (brakeman?) displaying
> pocket
> > protector, with or without pencils."
> >
> > Perhaps someone can help find that "dictionary"
> of
> > railroad terms online. 
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> Rule Book definition of a Train.

Thanks, but I was looking for a list of humorous definitions, simiilar to the one quoted in the original post. I may not be quoting the not-so-serious definition accurately, but it was part of a list with similar definitions.

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After spending (wasting?) some time on the internet, I finally found the definition I remembered:

"... an acquaintance of mine who once worked as a hoghead out of Oakland, told me that the Southern Pacific Operating Rules book defined a train as "An engine, or more than one engine, with or without cars displaying markers."  Espee also had a definition for the old man riding the caboose cushions:  "A conductor is a brakeman, with or without brains, displaying pencils."

Here's a few.

Interlocking:            When your bowels are all tied up and you can't go to the bathroom.

Yard:          An area around a house where they grow grass.

Pilot:        What they do in the feed lots with the manure.  They pile it here, they pile it there.

Engine:        Who the cowboys used to fight with.
 

You guys are terrific! Good input. I also worked out of Oakland on the SP.  A lot of characters for sure.

Yard: A lot of tracks with no particular system, in charge of a Yard master. Trains that are out can't get in. Trains that are in can't get out.

TAW

TAW Wrote:
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> Yard: A lot of tracks with no particular system,
> in charge of a Yard master. Trains that are out
> can't get in. Trains that are in can't get out.
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> TAW
Yikes! Sounds too much like the Black Flag 'Roach Motel'!