[modeleng] Re: US locomotive terms
- From: John Browning <jgb7573@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:43:19 +0000
According to the list of definitions on the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum
website (http://www.sdrm.org/faqs/defs.html) a hogger is derived from hoghead
and is a railroad engineer. And a locomotive is a hog. No idea why.
John
> From: oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: US locomotive terms
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:59:51 +0100
>
> Hmm .... as most train drivers were ex-firemen, and so "cuddly" to say the
> least, like as wot my uncle did, all 18 stone (250 pounds) of him, did they
> get this name because they resembled a barrel, as in a "hogshead" which
> holds 54 gallons of English beer or 52.1/2 gallons of wine, and 63 gallons
> in the US?
>
> TonyW.
>
> PS, The barrel sizes came from Wikipedia, but they don't say much for US
> beer, does it! Perhaps it contracts with being so cold though .... <VBG>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 5:01 AM
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >>From: peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Harry,
> >>It seems that 'hogger' is a diminutive of 'hoghead', according to my book
> >
> > Peter,
> > That's a new one on me . . . but then so much is these days. :-o
> >
>
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