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Show Railroaders Strong in Use of Colorful Terms A brakemau Is telling a story of the rails: "Before we leave I take a run up to the calliope to match watches with the hoghend and find s student tab-low tab-low pot In the cab, taking orders from the bakehead and eiNidln' diamonds dia-monds with his feet together." Substitute locomotive for "calliope," engineer , for "boghead." apprentice fireman for "student tallow pot," fireman fire-man for "bakehead," coal for "diamonds" "dia-monds" and It all becomes quite Intelligible, In-telligible, says the Bookman. The railroad man has not one but Severn I colorful terms for the men and things that enter Into his day's work. The locomotive Is still "the hog," from the wood huning' days when Its gluttonous appetite kept s tire-man tire-man constantly on his toes, but It Is also the "calliope" and the "holler." A . switch engine, which butts cars about the yards, Is t'e "gout," The engineer Is "hoghend," "hogger" nnd "swell head." The nromno Is "bake-heud." "bake-heud." A "snake" Is a yard switchman and s "stinger" Is a brakeman, while the ynrdmaster answers to "dinger." A "drag" Is s slow freight and the caboose, ca-boose, reasonably enough, Is the "crummy." |