What is the very front part of a train?

Question

Can anyone help me?I have no idea what it is called...all i know is that the back is the caboose.(Sp?)

Answer 1

well on to days train the front is the engine now back in the cowboy day the very front was called a cow catcher, hope this helps.

Answer 2

The cab of the engine

Answer 3

The engine!

Answer 4

The locomotive is the power unit at the front of the train and the cab of the locomotive is where the head end crew is located.

The most frontest front part of the train would the front coupler, that is what would hit an obstacle first.

Answer 5

the face of the knuckle in the coupler

Answer 6

Its the engine room or it has been called the locomotive as well.I call it the engine

Answer 7

it's the choo-choo

Answer 8

The engine/locomotive

Answer 9

Hi Kristin,

The front of the train is lead by the locomotives (or also called engines for slang), today powered by diesel-electrics although in the years before roughly the 1950s steamers ruled the rails.

Answer 10

The front part of a train (The very front), is called the "pilot", or, in Britain, the "buffer beam", the last referring to the spring-loaded devices called "buffers" that cushion the impact of coupling and possible bumping together of the cars/coaches, and also contact with the end-of-track guards (also named "buffers"). Note: Buffers are only used on European railways, in the US, the couplers are the primary shock absorbers.

The Engineer sits in the cab, short for cabin, usually located on or near the front of the engine (although it can vary, sometimes being in the middle, or the back. On a steam locomotive, the cab is in back, behind the boiler) The Engineer's seat is usually on the right hand side, although in Britain and Europe, it is often on the left, again, it can vary with the locomotive, signals, rule-books, and the country.

Answer 11

The engineer is usually operating the engine consist from the lead locomotive, seated on the right hand side in the direction of movement.

The very front of the engine is called the 'pilot'.  Often there is a snow plow that is integral to the locomotive, called the 'pilot plow'.  Where there is no pilot plow, there are the 'foot boards'.

When referring to the front of the train in general, this is referred to as the 'head end'.

Answer 12

In technical terms of railway engineerig;  It is called Power