| Beginning With: "K" |
| 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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