Locomotive Engineer

A locomotive engineer may refer to:

  • Railroad engineer, a person who operates a locomotive, usually called an engine or train driver outside North America
  • Locomotive builder, a person who designs and builds locomotives
  • A person employed in any engineering profession whose work includes operations on locomotives
  • The title of a periodical edited by John A. Hill (vol. 1 no. 1 Jan. 1888)

Famous quotes containing the words locomotive and/or engineer:

    “I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
    —Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)