What is a Johnson bar on a locomotive?

Find out what's behind this mysterious railroad term.

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Trains "put the Johnson bar against the running board" to gain speed.

A Johnson bar is the reverse lever of a locomotive. "To put the Johnson bar against the running board" means to get speed.

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