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SCLS Live Steam Railroading Glossary

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KANGAROO COURT An official hearing or investigation, so named because it may be held wherever most convenient, anywhere along the road, jumping around like a kangaroo, to act on main-line mixups or other urgent problems
KEELEY Water can for hot journals or bearings. Nickname derived from "Keeley cure" for liquor habit
KETTLE Any small locomotive, especially an old, leaky one. Also called teakettle and coffeepot
KEY Telegraph instrument
KICK See drop
KICKER Triple valve in defective order, which throws air brakes into emergency when only a service application is intended, or sometimes by a bump of the train
KING Freight conductor or yardmaster. King snipe is foreman of track gang. King pin is conductor
KITCHEN Caboose; engine cab. Firebox is kitchen stove
KNOCK HER IN THE HEAD Slow Down
KNOCKOUT Same as bump
KNOWLEDGE BOX Yardmaster's office; president of the road
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