2007-01-05 08:30:59 · 15 answers · asked by smittytheonly1 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Rail
Because their purpose is still valid.
In railroading, the pilot is the device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles from the track that might otherwise derail the train. Archaically this was called a cowcatcher, and this is still the common layman's usage, but this term is deprecated and has not been used by railroad workers for more than a century.
2007-01-05 08:33:24 · answer #1 · answered by Melli 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Locomotive Breath. Long Train Running is good also, but I do not remember if Doobies played that when I saw them in the Superdome with Van Halen and The Stones. Tickets for that were about $20, around 1979 or 1980. Never saw Tull. Edit: Just thought of one of the greatest train songs of all time. Ballad of Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
2016-05-23 06:48:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still things that sometime block a train's path today. I heard a story once that an Amtrak train hit a washing machine that a bunch of kids put on the tracks just to see it get crushed.
2007-01-05 09:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by asm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. The cow catcher was retired along with the old steam engines.
What is there today is called a "pilot", and their design is not for knocking cattle off the track, but rather for operations in the snow. Study the design and this becomes apparent.
2007-01-05 09:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cow catchers?
I don't know of any locomotives that have had cow catchers in maybe a century or so..
I do know why locomotives have pilots and snow plows..
2007-01-05 09:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by DT89ACE 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
New Diesel locomotives DON'T have them, they have a connector so that they can be connected backwards to push trains up steep grades.
2007-01-05 08:34:12 · answer #6 · answered by Icefire 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in case of cows or stupid crap cray people may leave on the tracks like a couch or a car passing through
2007-01-05 08:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by bighcorleone 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Trains run through rural area everyday.Cows,deer,horses really still exist !!
2007-01-05 08:34:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
so when idiots think they can beat the train at a crossing - they can easily be moved out of the way
2007-01-05 08:32:43 · answer #9 · answered by bbq 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So your mother can eat without having to cut the meat herself.
2007-01-05 08:33:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋