Lesson #4
All right, Class. Let’s review this week’s vocabulary.
Extra-Credit Homework: Use the vocabulary words to write a story about someone you admire in the train yard!
Bad order — “A freight car which has been barred from service because of a mechanical problem or defect. To mark such a car a card is placed on it by a car inspector.” (American Rails Link)
Beanery — railroad slang for an eating house
Beanery queen — railroad slang for a waitress
Beans or Going to Beans — “Taking a break from work to eat” (Wikipedia)
Buffer stop: “a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track.”
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Poppa McCoy and Belle the sleeping car sit on a buffer stop.
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Classification yard — “a railroad yard consisting of classification tracks” (Webster); “a place or depot where railway wagons are shunted and made up into trains and where engines, carriages, etc, are kept when not in use” (The Free Dictionary). In the UK, this is known as a marshalling yard.
Consist — “Used to describe the makeup of a train (i.e., freight, car types, etc.).” (American Rails)
Fallen flag — “A defunct railroad, having either merged or discontinued operations” (Wikipedia)
Hogger — “A locomotive engineer” (Wikipedia)
Hotshot — “A high priority freight train that is usually never held up and nearly always given the main line.” (American Rails)
Siding — “A second parallel track (running for a short distance) on single-track railway lines, allowing a train to pass another” (Wikipedia)
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Wye — “a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to each incoming line” (Wikipedia) Also known as a triangular junction
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