Locomotive terms

Awesome= an ALCo diesel

Wrong= anyone who denies that 10 (yes 10) "awkward" consols on a coal drag is awesome

foamer= refusing to use standard terminology
 
Sleeks/slicks: steam locomotives with little to no external pipes or equipment on their boilers. (For example, British and streamlined locos)

Hermit crabs/"shellers": smaller steam locomotives whose cabs look to be oversized.

More to come when I can think of some...
 
Here's some from me.

Bugger: Train hauling VWs
Scrap: What all diesels should be IMHO
I Like Trains: Randomness...
Entertainment: Well, it's not for the people in them...
Blast: What Sawyer811 says before 'Pipe!!!'
Cylinder.... Won't mention that, you've probably guessed what that was going to be! :p
What the?: Glitch in Trainz
Elephant Ears: What I (and Gary Hoorne) call locos with large smoke deflectors
Oldie but Goldie: Lion, the little 0-4-2 built in 1838

That's it for now!
 
Wessex_Electric_Nutter said:
Only because they Grunt and can't pull a skin of a rice pudding and they never reach their top speed of 15mph?
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yes, and also because the designers didn't really do a good job of placing those windows. or making the windows a bit larger. Hell, I find driving a gronk backwards wierd... Andrew Barclay, your other shunters are ok, but the class 08? no way.
 
Steamdemon said:
yes, and also because the designers didn't really do a good job of placing those windows. or making the windows a bit larger. Hell, I find driving a gronk backwards wierd... Andrew Barclay, your other shunters are ok, but the class 08? no way.
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What, as in having the claustaphobic front end and rather enlarged bug eyed rear end?

There is 2 good things about a gronk doing a boogie (If you ever heard/been on 08288, you'll know what I mean), firstly, theres a hot plate.... but, if it works, you are lucky. Secondly, you can open every single window in the height of summer, even the ones at the ends, however, in Ropley yard at the height of summer, you risk being buggered. (flying bugs)
 
Herbie--Cappie's dream car:hehe:

The abomination--what i call a GEVO

why?--what i say when i find out that the long hood isn't the front of the engine and back off a siding (Class 08 anyone?:hehe:)

creepy--when i see the UFO that's haunting my railway:o

Boxes on wheels--a class 66 (hope that didn't offend anybody...hey, EMD built 'em, but they just don't look right to me)

more to come!
 
sawyer811 said:
Herbie--Cappie's dream car:hehe:
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DeLorean: Cappie's dream car if he can't get Herbie! (With working Flux Capacitor, Time Circuits, ect)
Flux Capacitor: My word of the month! (Sounds Fluxy!)
Prototype 9F: Big Bertha, the banker/helper on the Lickey Incline
TMTWQ: One of the best youtube series made in Trainz!
Content Confuser Plus: Content Creator Plus
 
As long as you define proper as heritage as far as I'm concerned. But to be hoonest, I do love heritage stock! I wish there was a complete Amtrak Heritage train set out there but we'' have to wait on that.

Fred
 
Eh, i've got nothing against amcrash...er, amtrak, it's just that to me, P42s, and FP40s for that matter, don't look good. Then again, when i was little my grandpa regaled me with stories of those shiny FP7s, PA-1s, E8s and those big, beautiful steam engines that pulled the Rivals, the 20th Century Limited and the Broadway Limited, plus miss Katy's burly 4-6-2s highballing the Flyer out of St. Louis. I grew up loving those sleek 50's engines, and to a guy with that mindset, shovelnosed P42s and Boxy F40s just aren't right.

Moral of the story, forgive the guy who loves older engines. Amtrak Engines have their place, and they get the job done. that much we can't deny.
 
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