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What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly? Related thread: (origins) Origins: Down by the station, early in the morning (43)
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Subject: RE: What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly? From: GUEST,Fred Stoll Date: 29 May 11 - 01:35 AM Puffer belly is a train term. In the UK. It is a small underpowered engine used to move cars around. i.e., a small switch engine. Supposedly a child's nickname for the engine type. |
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Subject: RE: What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly? From: GUEST,Fred Stoll Date: 29 May 11 - 01:35 AM Puffer belly is a train term. In the UK. It is a small underpowered engine used to move cars around. i.e., a small switch engine. Supposedly a childs nickname for the engine type. |
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Subject: RE: What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly? From: GUEST,Paul Burke Date: 29 May 11 - 04:42 AM Over many years of interest in UK railways, I've never heard the term used in this way. What USAians call a switcher is over here a shunter, a pug (particularly in Scotland), a dobbin, a jocko (still used for the ubiquitous class 08 diesels), sometimes donkey (that's what the folks outside the fence called it). |
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Subject: RE: What's a pufferbillie / pufferbelly? From: GUEST,K Magill Date: 26 Mar 12 - 09:02 PM Hmm, just goes to show the disappearance of train culture in the US - seems like the UK has us beat in terms of fluency in railway terminology... *eleven years and counting!* |
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