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International Railroad Discussion > Cargo Trains?Date: 08/04/22 05:46 Cargo Trains? Author: RDG630 Why in many foreign countries are what are called freight train trains in the U.S. referred to as cargo trains?
Posted from iPhone Date: 08/04/22 07:59 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: PHall Same reason engineers are called drivers and conductors are guards, because that's what they do in their country.
Date: 08/04/22 10:40 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: TAW PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Same reason engineers are called drivers and > conductors are guards, because that's what they do > in their country. ...and in South Africa a truck is a freight car for us and a bogie is a truck for us TAW Date: 08/04/22 11:09 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: Notch7 The difference in language tickled me one day. I had dropped my Bricklin sports car off at the local Porsche-Audi dealership to be worked on. The dealership gave me a ride to the railroad yard. I shared the ride with a German businessman in a three piece suit going uptown. I was in dirty striped overalls and cap. He turned to me while were we riding and in a thick German accent phonetically said : "Zo, you drive ze cargo train". In my usual Carolina drawl I responded to him : "Yeah buddy".
Date: 08/04/22 11:35 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: pedrop In portuguese spoken in Brazil, all the trains type C are "cargueiros" that means "cargo ship" in english. So, the word freight here is less common used than cargo.
Posted from Android Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1 Date: 08/06/22 07:41 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: masterphots I'll add another term to the discussion. In many nations, a meet is known as a cross, as in 'where will the trains cross?" Here in Chile (both in Spanish and English) cars are wagons, trucks are bogies, freight is cargo and meets are crossings (cruz in Spanish).
Date: 08/06/22 07:52 Re: Cargo Trains? Author: TAW masterphots Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I'll add another term to the discussion. In > many nations, a meet is known as a cross, as > in 'where will the trains cross?" Here in > Chile (both in Spanish and English) cars are > wagons, trucks are bogies, freight is cargo and > meets are crossings (cruz in Spanish). Crossing is derived from the lines representing the trains on a traffic (stringline) diagram. TAW |