Definition of train

[Anonymous]

What's the definition of a train in your dictionary?[;)] The word train for me means a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy powering up Sherman Hill on a bright June afternoon with the PFE in tow, and an armor yellow caboose on the end. That or a UP FEF streaking accross the west with an Armor Yellow passenger car consist behind.

[Jetrock]

Sounds like a pretty high standard to me...heck, in my book, a single-truck Birney streetcar trundling along a tree-lined street at 15 MPH counts as a "train"!

Officially, of course, if it's on the schedule, it's a train. If it's an extra, it's also a train.

[Big_Boy_4005]

I think I'll go with something more generic. A locomotive pulling at least one car, traveling down track to somewhere. Jetrock is right, let's not get greedy, though that would be a pretty picture.[swg]

[Jetrock]

Awww, the Birneys make a pretty picture too...cute, anyhow!

[Anonymous]

It HAS to have CB&Q on it somewhere to be considered a train!![8D]

[Anonymous]

A thing with Steal wheels, and runs on somehting called a track carrying more thne one car

[FThunder11]

2 amtrak p42dc's (I saw one today[:)][Southwest Chief]) with a baggage car, and 7 or 8 Superliners behind it. coming to a crossing blowing its horn.

[leighant]

A train is a locomotive with or without cars outside yard limits displaying markers. If you don't believe, look it up in any railroad's operating rule book.

[SP4449]

That means the HiRailer Maintenance of Way truck I saw pulling a ballast hopper with a backhoe tractor on it, a flat car with a couple of track panels, and gondola for broken rails, is a train [(-D][;)]. Didn't have a camera with me.

[Anonymous]

anything Rock Island...from one of the Rockets streaking down the High-Iorn to a little branch line way freight winding through the Weat Fields of Western Oklahoma. Or the many Interurban Lines like the Oklahoma Ry., the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union, the Northeast Oklahoma RR, the Sand Springs Ry., and the Union Electric Ry. Or mabey the Katy running the Texas Special at top speed. then there are the Regionals Ok the Sooner state. Farmrail, TSU, AT&L, AOK, and others

[twhite]

A Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2 heading up the Eagle River from Minturn to Tennessee Pass with a 56-car mixed freight (including some PFE reefers bound for Pueblo and St. Louis via MOPAC), another L-131 pushing somewhere in the middle, and a 1600 3-cylinder Mountain right ahead of the caboose. 3% grade, 15MPH and loud enough to wake the dead. THAT, my friends, is a TRAIN!
Tom

[Anonymous]

Anything operating outside the yard on the rails is a train.

[Allen Jenkins]

SP4449, that sounds exciting! If the cut of rail cars carried a EOT on the rear, it was a train. If not, it was a MOW assignment.
If it had a Freightliner pulling it, it was the bomb!

[dehusman]

Traditional : Engine or engines coupled, with or without cars displaying markers.
Modern: Engine or engines coupled, with or without cars, authorized to occupy the main track.

Dave H.

[j1love]

Let's try a 4-4-4-4 T-1 class engine with a K-4 in front to help with the grade, pulling a full fleged, no holes barred all pullman limited up the horseshoe curve in 1949? I think that is a train!!

[Fergmiester]

Something that makes you sit in traffic for 20 minutes, making you realize they're nice to look at on your layout or when your not in a hurry!

Something I use to enjoy as a kid counting alll the cars, about 100+ and reading off all the different roadnames and the places they were from. Don't see as much of that anymore do you?


Fergie