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footplate

footplate (plural footplates)

1. The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive, particularly in the UK, which supports the boiler and the engineers cab.
2. The engineers cab in any kind of train.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 845:

     Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.

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