Ethaniel

Trains eh? Sit down kiddos.

 

One of the big reasons the north won the civil war against the south was because they had more railroads.

Railroads are a big reason why America expanded so fast. The Continental railroad was built and many cities were built along tracks because of the easy and fast transportation.

Many people think that the conductor drives the train and they are wrong. The engineer drives the train while the conductor makes sure they have the right cars, are on the right track, and proper paper work.

My favorite locomotive is the EMD SD40-2 which was built in the 1970s, although it is still used they are starting to replace them with bigger and stronger locomotives.

Slang for a member of railroad police is cinder ****.

A hotbox is when friction causes the wheel to catch fire.

The connection points between cars is called a coupler.

In some railroad yards they have remote control trains.
 

Engineers and conductors are on call 24/7 all year, even holidays. Once they are called they have to be to where the train in going to be in within two hours and they only get 8 hours off the job.

There you go boys. Feel free to ask me anything about trains because trains are amazing.