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Candyy ♡ 6 Jul @ 3:12pm
Do you say "drive a train"?
Saw a Pokémon póster and it made me think... So you say "drive a car", "drive a truck" but what about trains?

Actually with trains being so automated these days and some cities even implementing trains without a cabina (this sounds cool though) there is probably almost no human interaction at all 🤔
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Fajita Jim 6 Jul @ 3:14pm 
You don't drive a train.

You steer it.
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Electric Cupcake 6 Jul @ 3:16pm 
Automation with no human backup and failsafes would be quite an abattoir.

I don't know if it originated there, but the saying 'the rule book is written in blood' is synonymous with the rail industry.
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Electric Cupcake 6 Jul @ 3:17pm 
RIP, Britt Allcroft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOeJjfquXI8
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Würm 6 Jul @ 3:21pm 
Originally posted by Fajita Jim:
You don't drive a train.

You steer it.

I thought you engineer it?
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Candyy ♡ 6 Jul @ 3:22pm 
Originally posted by Würm:
Originally posted by Fajita Jim:
You don't drive a train.

You steer it.

I thought you engineer it?

Engineer is verb too?
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Würm 6 Jul @ 3:23pm 
Originally posted by Candyy ♡:
Originally posted by Würm:

I thought you engineer it?

Engineer is verb too?

As is pork.
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Affronter 6 Jul @ 3:25pm 
You control the train. There's no "driving" and no "steering". It's on rails. You turn on the power and control the speed. That's it.
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xDDD 6 Jul @ 3:26pm 
I'd probably call him a "train operator" since he is the one who is operating the machine which is the train.

I guess they are often called "engineers" since it used to require engineering know-how but it kind of doesn't anymore.
Last edited by xDDD; 6 Jul @ 3:28pm
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Electric Cupcake 6 Jul @ 3:37pm 
Originally posted by xDDD:
I'd probably call him a "train operator" since he is the one who is operating the machine which is the train.

I guess they are often called "engineers" since it used to require engineering know-how but it kind of doesn't anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Fn-ZdplMA

A classier breed of nerds we had in the 70s and 80s, when Douglas Adams was king, and trekkies quoted Kipling. Even if bad Scottish accents were cringe.
Last edited by Electric Cupcake; 6 Jul @ 3:37pm
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Original Cast Recording 6 Jul @ 4:24pm 
You drive a train in the sense of propelling a thing forward. Nails, golf balls, wedges, cars can all be "driven".
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bAd a!m 6 Jul @ 4:27pm 
you drive a train, sail a boat and pilot a plane

with cars, you use voice command
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Robby Hardrock77 6 Jul @ 4:31pm 
drive a train with a Bi-boy
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Electric Cupcake 6 Jul @ 4:33pm 
Originally posted by bAd a!m:
you drive a train, sail a boat and pilot a plane

with cars, you use voice command

You pilot a boat.

Navy guys will get up in your face if you call the flyboys "pilots" instead of "aviators."

I makes sense to avoid ambiguity.
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Slim Shady 6 Jul @ 4:34pm 
People dont even go on trains at all nowadays :(
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bAd a!m 6 Jul @ 4:35pm 
Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:
Originally posted by bAd a!m:
you drive a train, sail a boat and pilot a plane

with cars, you use voice command

You pilot a boat.

Navy guys will get up in your face if you call the flyboys "pilots" instead of "aviators."

I makes sense to avoid ambiguity.

I didn't talk about how you call the person doing the operation of said transportation vehicle.

It's about how you call that action.

and for boats --> you SAIL a boat, you can only "pilot" a remote toy boat

and for planes --? you pilot the plane, you don't "aviate" or whatever made-up word you think about
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