| Beginning With: "N" |
| NEWS BUTCHER |
Peddler who sells magazines, candy, fruit, 'etc., in trains. Usually employed nowadays by Union News Co. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was a news butcher in his youth and became deaf when a conductor boxed his ears for accidentally starting a fire while experimenting in a baggage car near Smith Creek, Mich. |
| NICKEL GRABBER |
Streetcar conductor |
| NIGGERHEAD |
Turret at top of locomotive boiler, over crown sheet, from which saturated steam is taken for operation of pumps, stoker, injectors, and headlight turbine |
| NO-BILL |
Nonunion or nonbrotherhood railroad worker. Also called nonair |
| NOSE ON |
Couple on with head end of engine |
| NOSEBAG |
Lunch carried to work. Put on the nosebag means to eat a meal |
| NUMBER DUMMY |
Yard clerk or car clerk; also called number grabber |
| NUT SPLITTER or NUT BUSTER |
Machinist |
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