Train Hoppers Dictionary
- Bull
- Railroad security persons, usually driving white American trucks
around the yard.
- Catch Out
- To hop or jump on a freight train.
- COFC/TOFC
- Container On Flat Car / Trailer On Flat Car.
- Consist
- What a train is made up of.
- Drag/Turn/Work Train
- A train doing local delivery and pickups.
- FRED/EOT
- Fucking Rear End Device / End Of Train device. A small blinking
red light on the back of the last car of a train.
- Hotshot
- A train with high priority over other traffic.
- Piggyback
- A flat train car that holds trucks or containers.
- Power
- The engines powering the train.
- Reefer
- A refrigerated box car.
- Stack Train
- A train made up of mostly flat cars or well cars, loaded
with standardardized shipping containers, sometimes "double stacked".
Also known as intermodal freight.
- Unit
- A engine or locomotive.