In railroad workers’ slang, the expression to bake a cake means to build up steam in a locomotive by stoking a fire. Another term for a train’s fireman is bakehead. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Bakehead” Was the Fireman; “Bake a Cake” Was the Steam-Building Work”
I came across a bit of railroad slang, bake a cake.
Do you know what it means to bake a cake?
Turn on all your lights?
I don’t know.
What?
It means to build up steam in a locomotive.
Okay, you’re stoking the fire.
Yeah, you’re stoking the fire.
In fact, another term from railroad slang for fireman is a bakehead.
A bakehead.
All right.
