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Locomotive Emoji 🚂

Smokestack and all, straight out of an old rail line rather than anything modern or aerodynamic. It's used for train nostalgia and vintage travel imagery, and lends itself to 'here comes the hype train' — or gravy train — whenever momentum on something is building fast and hard.

What 🚂 means

A steam locomotive designed with a black and yellow body built with a chimney that lets out whiteish (or greyish) smoke, a red carriage with some yellow detailing, and two pairs of red wheels.

The 🚂 Locomotive emoji represents steam engine trains or steam locomotives that use wood and coal as fuel. It signifies the olden times when these trains were used, not the mention the pollution they caused too.

How and when to use it

Steam locomotives were in vogue from the 19th century till mid 20th century. So, if you're posting anything that resonates with this time, you can use 🚂 in those post captions.
While posting or reposting vintage train pictures, 🚂 could be added in the post caption. You could also use this emoji while sharing pictures and/or videos of railway tracks or you on them (as part of a photoshoot, geez).
You can also use 🚂 while sharing pictures of your grandparents, great grands, essentially, any ancestral post could use this emoji in the caption - indicating that they're old, classic, and vintage.
If you love trains, or if you just love Sheldon Cooper, oh sorry, Dr. Sheldon Cooper, you could use 🚂 in your social media profile name.
🚂 can be used to signify a 'slow coach' too - since old trains were comparatively slower, less efficient, and not very impressive in terms of speed.

Other Names

🚂 Steam Locomotive
🚂 Steam Train
🚂 Engine Train
🚂 Steam Engine Train
🚂 Thomas (if you get it, you get it)
🚂 Train Engine
🚂 Choo Choo Train

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F682
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :steam_locomotive::locomotive: Discord
Keywords: caboose, engine, locomotive, railway, steam, train, trains, travel

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.