Evening star. [volume], September 07, 1947, Page 23, Image 114

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RAILROAD SLANG
by Lucius Beebe
W hat's “a pig and 40
reefers”? Any real
RR fan can tell you
66Oo we tied the pig onto
O forty reefers, the head
shack bent the iron into the
main and after the brains gave
Ac a highball from the straw
berry pitch I pulled the plug
and we rolled out of the garden
on the advertised.”
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lar, is how a freight-train engi
neer might say: “So we coupled
the locomotive onto a train of
forty refrigerator cars, the front
end brakeman opened the switch
into the through track, and after
the conductor gave me a go
ahead from the caboose, we left
the yards on schedule.”
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what you’d read in the pulp
magazines published for rail
road fans. Few railroad men
would express themselves in such
eloquent jargon. But the gaudy
lexicon of the “high iron” has
enough foundation in fact to be
occasionally valid.
Stagecoach Word
In compiling a glossary of rail
slang for our forthcoming book,
"Mixed Train Daily. A Book of
Short-Line Railroads.” Charles
M. Clegg and I discovered that,
although railroading was evolved
directly from-stagecoach travel,
only a single word, "hostler,”
was carried over. A hostler is
still a njan who grooms, cleans
and conditions locomotives.
And the Diesel-electric engine
lias brought with it scarcely half
a dozen additions to railroad
vernacular. From the automobile
industry, the proper parent of
Diesel power, there have de
rived only “barrel’’ for cylinder,
“bucket” for piston, “galloping
rod” for connecting rod, and "sin
gle stick” for single camshaft.
But the railroad industry it
self was responsible for almost
every other phrase, usage and
synonym it uses.
The Glory Wagon
Ok all the items of railroad
equipment, the one which
appeals most to the universal
imagination, the caboose, has
the most synonyms. Caboose
probably came from the French
cambi4sc or ship's store room.
Since then it has been known
as crummy, way car, doghouse,
bouncer, zoo, brain cage, peram
bulator, chariot, glory wagon,
hack, go-cart, hut, monkey
wagon, cabin car, shanty and
brainbox. And once we over
heard a brakeman, probably
a Harvard man. refer to it as
“the chateau.”
It is in pulp fiction and among
the amateurs of railroading, such
as model builders, that railroad
jargon flowers best. There, no
engineer can be anything but a
“Casey Jones,” “grunt,” “high
ball artist,” “hogger,” “eagle
eye” or “throttle artist,” and
no engine can be anything less
picturesque thana "mill,” “hog,”
“kettle,” “battleship,” "hay
burner” or “goat.”
Don’t try to tell a rail fan any
thing different, or he will take a
powder on you — only he would
call it “pulling the pin.”
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