Your $10 railroad word of the day

I think my wife has this.

Scott Smith

Eccentric Crank

take your pick!!!

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/glossry1.Html

One day I had my niece over to watch 3R trains.  I had a 726 Berk with a Polar Express Railsounds tender.  Othet loop had a Rail King PRR 2-8-0.  Smoke and loud sounds.  Ran out of room crying.  Was right about 2 years.

Now guess who wants the Cab1 clicker?

It's all Greek to me. I thought it had something to do with "side rods".

Siderodromophobia: Had an Engineer trainee one time that suffered from this. Didn't last very long. Had one trip over the main line Pittsburg to Harrisburg. Talk about white knuckled. Word was she resigned at the end of trip. 

Forest posted:

Siderodromophobia: Had an Engineer trainee one time that suffered from this. Didn't last very long. Had one trip over the main line Pittsburg to Harrisburg. Talk about white knuckled. Word was she resigned at the end of trip. 

Guessing this person had not worked their way up the ladder from ground crew brakeperson to conducto/fireperson (or whatever the current terms are) to the right seat engineer trainee, thus experience with heavy iron.

rrman posted:

Forest posted:

Siderodromophobia: Had an Engineer trainee one time that suffered from this. Didn't last very long. Had one trip over the main line Pittsburg to Harrisburg. Talk about white knuckled. Word was she resigned at the end of trip. 

Guessing this person had not worked their way up the ladder from ground crew brakeperson to conducto/fireperson (or whatever the current terms are) to the right seat engineer trainee, thus experience with heavy iron.

She hired out and worked on a 10 mph branch line. Was forced to qualify the main line which at 60 mph was too much to handle.

Rudolphs:

SDP40F's in original livery.

This is for the old retired guy....LASHUP!

Ed

Ed Mullan posted:

This is for the old retired guy....LASHUP!

 

Ed

Pretty sure he's not going to give $10 for that "word."