Talk:Train engine

Backwards
Will the train engine runs backward? i heard my friends saying it works only in the forward direction
 * A Train Engine may operate forwards or backwards. The only distinguishing feature of a Train Engine (as opposed to any other use of an engine) is that it is attached to the front of a train (or exceptionally the back of the train - see article); the direction in which the actual engine is facing is irrelevant.  Timothy Titus Talk To TT  10:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Locomotive
Someone a long time ago suggested merging with locomotive. The article claims that Train Engine is technically not the same, but I don't see any difference. I think this should redirect there. Please comment, railfans. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  05:11, 20 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - This article is practically an orphan, and can be accommodated in the glossary of rail terminology, as is Light Engine (which I just corrected to point there). The sentence about propelling is at odds with the push-pull train article.  Pilot Engine redirects to Double-heading, which really says nothing more than here anyway.  The only reason I can think of a merge into locomotive is as a glossary of locomotive usage terminology, ie with all 4 types of engine usage in that bulleted list. Tim PF (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd agree, so I redirected to Locomotive (equivalent to deletion but some people may actually use the term "train engine", we should redirect for their benefit). I copy & pasted the sole usable bit of text from the article across to Locomotive, and will tidy that up. A glossary of locomotive usage terminology could be interesting although the text from this article would add little, it'd mostly draw from Locomotive and from a handful of stubs that we have lying around. bobrayner (talk) 10:48, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - I think you should have waited a little longer. But, I have copied the other useful bit over to locomotive, added a sub-section heading "Operation role" with a , which this now redirects to. Tim PF (talk) 12:18, 20 February 2011 (UTC)