Brain Teaser / Diversion

[Pitchwife]

jumping from car to car when you are "walking the train"

 

[K.V.Div]

[QUOTE "walking the train"[/QUOTE]
The very dangerous job assigned to brakemen during the early days of railroading, even into the 1950's and a job that killed many of them :cry:

 

[ausien]

train hopping, like the hobos did....

 

[ezdays]

Railroad police, (or anti-hobo patrol)

 

[Pitchwife]

Railroad Bull (I always picture Ernest Borgnine when I think of them)

 

[RailRon]

"We're Bullish on Railroading"

(Slogan on the printed cardboard sides for the legendary NMRA Bulletin reefer)

 

[ezdays]

Bullish? isn't that something you find on the floor of cattle cars???...

 

[ausien]

Bull dust in a cows paddock, very supisious.

 

[trainworm]

Coal dust. covering the line from the mines in Wyoming.

 

[ezdays]

Trail dust, (created when cowpokes drop off the heard to ship back east)

 

[Doc Holliday]

Gold dust (also shipped by train back east)

 

[trainworm]

Golden spike. connected the east and the west

 

[Pitchwife]

rail spike, what held the rest of it together.

 

[ezdays]

Steel rails, what was held down by these spikes

 

[trainworm]

Ballast... what kept everything in place

 

[K.V.Div]

Pit Run...Low grade ballast straight out of a gravel pit.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Chicken Run (not sure it ties into railroading, I just liked the movie)
Doc

 

[ausien]

chichen coup

 

[Pitchwife]

coup de grass, a hostile takover of one RR by another.

 

[ezdays]

Grass and weeds in the roadbed