HOSTLER"Any employee (usually a fireman) who services engines, especially at division points and terminals. Also called ashpit engineer
HOT"Having plenty of steam pressure (applied to locomotives) ...
Hostlers were not allowed to handle cars outside of the servicing facilities, only light engine moves. Within servicing facilities, Hostlers could move cars around if allowed by collective bargaining agreements.
Hostler Person that moves locomotives around.
Homasote Paperboard often used for roadbed.
Hopper car Open top car, tall sides. Coal and gravel, emptied through chutes at the base.
Hostler
A workman who services locomotives between runs and moves them around an engine teminal.
Hotbox ...
Hostler
A person who operates engines in engine house territory and works under the direction of the engine house foreman (inside hostler).
Hostler
An employee who operates locomotives in and around enginehouses.
Hot box ...
Hostler
An engine yard worker who performs a variety of tasks including moving locomotives about the yard or into and out of the servicing area.
Hot Wire ...
Also called hostler's controls. Known in the UK as a shunting controller.
Hot Box (or Hotbox)
RAILWAYS. An overheated axle bearing.
Hot Box Detector (or Hotbox Detector)
RAILWAYS.
The first crew would be assigned as hostlers. That crew would be responsible for moving motive power. The hostler would take arriving trains power to the servicing facility and bring the assigned power to the outbound trains.
Hostler A US term for a small power and brake controller provided for the driver at certain positions on a locomotive or multiple unit train for shunting movements where the expense of a driver's cab is not considered necessary.
Power: A slang term referring to a locomotive or group of connected (MU'd) locomotives serving as the motive power for a train (as in "the hostler brought the power to the service pit.")
Prairie: locomotive with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement ...
Hostler - A roundhouse worker who cares for and moves the locomotives after each trip.
Hot-box - An overheated journal or bearing on a freight car wheel resulting from breakdown of lubricating film between bearing and journal.
 See also: Switch, Engine, Operation, Track, Train
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