Why are Pugs called Pugs? An Explanation & History: Enthralling Engines #8

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • Pugs are some of my favorite engine types; but what is the real meaning of that term? What makes an engine a Pug? Are Pugs ONLY 0-4-0's? Let's find out! :)
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  • @Randomstuffs261
    @Randomstuffs261 2 года назад +115

    *"Why is pug?"* is one of life's great unanswered questions

    • @Kuriboh1008
      @Kuriboh1008 2 года назад +5

      Who was phone?

    • @HyperCat72
      @HyperCat72 2 года назад +2

      @@Kuriboh1008 why was scotsman

    • @jamesgroccia644
      @jamesgroccia644 2 года назад +3

      More importantly:
      *Why is Terrier?*

    • @Kuriboh1008
      @Kuriboh1008 2 года назад +2

      @@jamesgroccia644 when is terrier?

    • @HyperCat72
      @HyperCat72 2 года назад +1

      @@Kuriboh1008 where was royal scot?

  • @tobbs5410
    @tobbs5410 2 года назад +81

    The pug, for it's size, is the smallest locomotive on the rails. This is Pugs.

    • @nikerailfanningttm9046
      @nikerailfanningttm9046 Год назад +4

      *DOOOOO*
      *DO DO DO DO DO DU DO!*
      *DUH! DUN! DAH DUN DAH DAH*
      (Instrumental lyrics of TUGS INTRO)

  • @MrNoUsername
    @MrNoUsername 2 года назад

    0:11
    If you imagine the whistle as the "barks" of the engine, it makes the idea of calling these engines pugs so much more adorable

  • @Wheeljack214
    @Wheeljack214 2 года назад +8

    Now whenever I see a "Pug" locomotive, I'm just gonna say,
    "What the Pug doin'?"

  • @nikerailfanningttm9046
    @nikerailfanningttm9046 Год назад

    1:47 *Awdry’s real prototype model of PERCY has been found!* and it looks to be in excellent condition for being 50+ years old! His model was first built in 1949, and amazing it looks this good all these years later!

  • @TTTEoliverFan
    @TTTEoliverFan 2 года назад +44

    This history is better than what I am learning in school 😂

  • @classicforreal
    @classicforreal 2 года назад

    2:05 it's the Unicycle Lion! *Darkness is triggered*

  • @Matts_Creations
    @Matts_Creations 2 года назад

    2:27 Tbh, I didn't know this LNER Y9 Pug loco exist. I thought that Hornby made this a freelance design.

  • @topaz3452
    @topaz3452 2 года назад +6

    Because it’s friend-shaped

  • @greencatsick
    @greencatsick 2 года назад

    Nice, I saw 2 NB pugs in Bo'ness museum on Monday

  • @MilkDrinker218
    @MilkDrinker218 2 года назад +6

    In essence, pugs are more or less small, 0-4-0 saddle tank engines, usually with outside cylinders.

  • @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152
    @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152 2 года назад

    Pugs are some of my favourite trains, so this was very interyto finally find out how they got the name.

  • @robthecatwillshire7429
    @robthecatwillshire7429 2 года назад +12

    Don't forget one famous pug......"Smokey Joe"

    • @johndavies1090
      @johndavies1090 2 года назад

      Smokey Joe, at least above the footplate, is actually a very good model of a Caledonian 'Pug'

    • @robthecatwillshire7429
      @robthecatwillshire7429 2 года назад

      @@johndavies1090 yep. Hornby first brought the model out in the early 80's and still used today. They did do a centenary edition of smokey joe back in 2020.

    • @johnathonmcjohn3
      @johnathonmcjohn3 10 месяцев назад

      *ZOOOOOOOOOOM*

  • @lukechristmas3951
    @lukechristmas3951 2 года назад

    3:25 What is that funnel! 🤣I do like Pugs, admittingly, the engines more than the dogs.

  • @PuzzlingHousing56
    @PuzzlingHousing56 2 года назад +3

    And now for why Jintys are called Jintys

  • @briandesens144
    @briandesens144 2 года назад

    Awesome video trainboy

  • @Dredge_Hog
    @Dredge_Hog 2 года назад

    I never thought I would want to know this

  • @bloodstreak2001
    @bloodstreak2001 2 года назад +10

    So pug is monkey in Scottish so does that mean the monkey meme are technically can be apply to these trains?

    • @ItsTrainBoy
      @ItsTrainBoy  2 года назад +6

      I think so 😳
      Monktren

    • @Pyrotrainthing
      @Pyrotrainthing 2 года назад +6

      Reject train-manity, return to pug

    • @SodorTrain1225
      @SodorTrain1225 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Pyrotrainthing "Go back! I want to be 0-4-0!"

  • @nikerailfanningttm9046
    @nikerailfanningttm9046 Год назад

    1:24 “the BIG PUGS”
    Ah yes, so our larger tank engines are ADULT PUGS, and our smaller tank engines are PUPPY PUGS.

  • @TidmouthSheds
    @TidmouthSheds 2 года назад +6

    A couple of these scotch “pugs” are on display at the Bo’ness and Kinniel Railway in…you guessed it…. Scotland. As a Scot myself I visit them and even sometimes see them running, the last time I did was fairly long ago though…

  • @johndavies1090
    @johndavies1090 2 года назад +8

    'Pug' is a very long establish northern term for small shunting engines. The idea that its contracted from 'pugilist' is a good one - short wheelbased, outside cylinder tank engines have a propensity to waddle when running, similar to a boxer limbering up. One of the east coast Scottish docks years ago displayed a lineside warning notice, which read 'Beware of the pug engine', giving it some official credence. So far as I'm aware, the term wasn't used sought of (roughly speaking) the River Mersey. Probably, as regards its origins, its best to say 'you pays your money, you takes your choice.'

  • @annagolaszewska2816
    @annagolaszewska2816 2 года назад

    Now we only have to know why a Jinty is called, well, a Jinty. Anyways great vid! I never wondered why the Pug locomotives we're known as that, but it's still cool to know, thank you for this little educational vid regarding the small and cute Pugs (well maybe aside from the GWR one), and i don't just mean the actual dog Pugs

  • @jamesthomas7443
    @jamesthomas7443 2 года назад

    I have had the chance to drive the blaenavon 0-4-0 pug shown, it snow got a much nicer livery

  • @trainslife1072
    @trainslife1072 2 года назад

    i feel like whenever some people think of a pug they sometimes think of percy

  • @samster4044
    @samster4044 2 года назад +9

    Next you should do the reason behind the name given to 4-6-2s "Pacific's"

    • @FunAngelo2005
      @FunAngelo2005 2 года назад +4

      Same with 4-4-2s "atlantics"

    • @johndavies1090
      @johndavies1090 2 года назад

      As I understand it, the name 'Pacific' came from an early batch of that arrangement being built for New Zealand.

    • @johndavies1090
      @johndavies1090 2 года назад +1

      @@FunAngelo2005 The first Atlantics, I believe were built for either the Atlantic Coast Line or the Atlantic City branch of the Philladelphia & Reading. Either way, the originating road's title became the type name for the wheel arrangement.

  • @sethbricked
    @sethbricked 2 года назад

    Hmm, this is actually a question I've never heard answered before

  • @ReryX08
    @ReryX08 2 года назад

    This just reminds me of the busted buffers video “Pug the movie”

  • @jongaming5637
    @jongaming5637 2 года назад +1

    pugs are pugs.
    dog pugs are dog pugs.
    I LOVE THEM BOTH!
    (also this video is good! keeps my day happy!)

  • @1_railfan
    @1_railfan 2 года назад +20

    I thought they were called "Pugs" because of both the shape, and guessed that it's the puffing noises that sounded like pug dog that gave them the name, like the terriers.

  • @pajis_xd
    @pajis_xd 2 года назад +5

    Pug a.k.a. the more common form of Percy a.k.a. easier way to make a model Percy

  • @stuartt9200
    @stuartt9200 Год назад

    The Scottish pug is basically the hornby generic 0-4-0

  • @ritchiesiepman5511
    @ritchiesiepman5511 2 года назад +6

    In the Netherlands. There is an engine (an 0-6-0 to be exact) with a very funny name. The engine's name is Bello, because of the bell that the engine class had to warn people along the line.
    I hope you can make a video about it

  • @Thatonesaddletank
    @Thatonesaddletank 2 года назад +28

    I actually never thought about that- I mean terriers make dog sounds but what about pugs?

  • @JEBEDIAHH
    @JEBEDIAHH 2 года назад +9

    i also think the name of pugs are fitting

  • @Damon_Drawings
    @Damon_Drawings 2 года назад

    I’ve never seen anything talk about a N.B.R. F class also known as a LNER J88

  • @TheGreyTurtleEntertainment
    @TheGreyTurtleEntertainment 2 года назад +1

    This just feeds into my head canon that Percy is a modified Caledonian Pug.

  • @vesnapavic2343
    @vesnapavic2343 Год назад

    Can you do a video on why are jinties called jinties

  • @DuckTheGWREngine8
    @DuckTheGWREngine8 2 года назад +1

    Amazing video as always, love the thumbnail btw.

  • @AdTheTankEngine13
    @AdTheTankEngine13 2 года назад

    GUYS WAKE UP TRAINBOI UPLOADED

  • @wumpus976
    @wumpus976 2 года назад

    I know it’s a little early for April Fool’s Day, but I came up with an incredible idea.
    Bachmann Tom Moss.

  • @thecpmr6276
    @thecpmr6276 2 года назад

    I know literally know one cares, but I've got an engine in my series that's nicknamed pug (his real name is Union of Rikabod), and the nickname came from the Turnfinch police term Person Under Guard, or P.U.G. because Union of Rikabod was in a scrapyard for a while, and his friend kept him safe there, or guarded him. So the engine protecting him nicknamed him Pug, because he was a Person Under Guard.

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 2 года назад

    2:45 my local railway museum has that exact same engine, she’s called “Allison” on her side tanks.

  • @Plokman040
    @Plokman040 2 года назад

    As a person who had a Pug and know how they act a cheeky four wheel tank engine is a real mechanical version of the pups. Just as the A1s are Terriers.

  • @AlecWheelweld
    @AlecWheelweld 2 года назад

    I love them enough I stopped working and watched the video. Worth getting yelled at by my manager

  • @West_Coast_Mainline
    @West_Coast_Mainline 2 года назад +1

    To pug or not to pug

  • @cjperkinsboy1293
    @cjperkinsboy1293 2 года назад

    I saw LNWR and thought London and North Western Railway (like if sodor had a line a London)

  • @nikerailfanningttm9046
    @nikerailfanningttm9046 Год назад

    Me: hears the word PUG
    Also me: *THINKING OF MY HORNBY NCB B2 PECKETT*

  • @onetrackmind3558
    @onetrackmind3558 2 года назад

    Wait I thought the engine named Pug was only called that with his class.

  • @LBSC70
    @LBSC70 2 года назад

    New insult from Thomas to Percy

  • @allison122477
    @allison122477 2 года назад

    Most people when pugs: dogs
    T&F or train fan: RWS

  • @dutchvanderlinde1899
    @dutchvanderlinde1899 2 года назад

    Dog on wheels? Totally understand it

  • @mbcmechachu
    @mbcmechachu 2 года назад

    The fact that term expands towards a broad variety of locomotives it kind of makes me have want to give the one that we see in The Railway Series books a proper name.

  • @jaxsonbodenhamer349
    @jaxsonbodenhamer349 2 года назад

    OMG my brother 2:47

  • @tictac254
    @tictac254 2 года назад

    a kid in my school reminds me of the pug

  • @Oliverfan2010
    @Oliverfan2010 6 месяцев назад

    What is a jinty locomotive? Can you make a video on that after I’m done watching this video can you please make a video on?the jinty locomotive, please and how they became friends with percy in the Railway series

  • @Enterprising11
    @Enterprising11 2 года назад

    Not what I was expecting

  • @tmdrm9817
    @tmdrm9817 2 года назад

    I have been on a "pug" however the engine was called pug beacause it was a Pretty Useful Gift due to it being donated to them by the RSSA (Railway Society of South Africa). So yeah thought it would be an interesting story.

  • @Kaidenstudios2011
    @Kaidenstudios2011 2 года назад

    Percy in the corner: 🥺

  • @PopCorn-pv8qq
    @PopCorn-pv8qq 2 года назад

    6 hours till this is 24 hours or 1 day old

  • @Adam-wu8nh
    @Adam-wu8nh 2 года назад

    first engine i ever did anything to was a pug bothj in genral and work on, funnly i am in the video somewhere

  • @rhyschambers7829
    @rhyschambers7829 2 года назад +1

    It has also been suggested that its short for Pugilist as their small size belied their impressive strength though I can't find my sources for at the moment

  • @jibaontim8975
    @jibaontim8975 2 года назад

    @1:27 that’s not a pug that’s a husky he’s huge 💀

  • @AtkataffTheAlpha
    @AtkataffTheAlpha 2 года назад

    I think I remember a line from the model seasons of the original series where the narrator said "Percy barked back"

  • @bow-tiedengineer4453
    @bow-tiedengineer4453 2 года назад

    Pugs are the little engines so ugly they're cute. they're mostly shunters and industrial engines, not glamorous, not meant to be beautiful, just a bunch of little troopers, and as such, they are nice, relatable little engines.

  • @D.S_Productions
    @D.S_Productions 2 года назад +1

    Why are Jinty's called... Jinty's?

  • @jaxsonbodenhamer349
    @jaxsonbodenhamer349 2 года назад

    I don’t know why they named it Pug I was built as a pug and I never question that

  • @summer_stanier
    @summer_stanier 2 года назад +1

    i always figured tha pugs were named pugs because they're small and kinda squashed like the faces of pugs

  • @Mr.toasterandclay
    @Mr.toasterandclay 2 года назад

    Pug+monkey =small bean

  • @FlyingRabbitMedia
    @FlyingRabbitMedia 2 года назад +1

    When is pug?

    • @ItsTrainBoy
      @ItsTrainBoy  2 года назад

      That’s the real question we need to answer

  • @conz.6733
    @conz.6733 2 года назад

    becose the pugs are small and dog pugs thats why and now instead of Percy being a caterpillar he is now a pug

  • @engineerskalinera
    @engineerskalinera 2 года назад

    B&O Docksider is a pug?
    Thanks I guess

  • @Abbojnr
    @Abbojnr 2 года назад +1

    I am convinced that reality is just a series of in-jokes between whatever deity there is,
    Cause I just got an old Dapol Pug,
    Like, I unboxed and run tested it yesterday levels of just gotten,

  • @dannygmtg
    @dannygmtg 2 года назад

    Yet another example of how great Scottish engineering was and is

  • @InkyBoiArts
    @InkyBoiArts 2 года назад

    Why insult the smöl when friend shaped?

  • @SB-tp3yw
    @SB-tp3yw 2 года назад

    i’m curious about the music choice, I like it don’t get me wrong, but won’t it get a strike? 😅

  • @elliethepug5506
    @elliethepug5506 2 года назад

    This is my favorite train boy video and my pug approves

  • @Ryder-a-Blaze
    @Ryder-a-Blaze 2 года назад

    They’re short and stumpy just like a pug

  • @C1anlanticlover2907
    @C1anlanticlover2907 2 года назад

    bc the dog pug likes them ofc

  • @Steamenginesunited3456
    @Steamenginesunited3456 2 года назад +1

    Cause they're cute like the dog. Duh

  • @HardyTheStormChasinFurry
    @HardyTheStormChasinFurry 7 месяцев назад

    Smokey joe 😂

  • @sebastianjackson1119
    @sebastianjackson1119 2 года назад

    Nice video

  • @Bootleg_Metalhog
    @Bootleg_Metalhog 6 месяцев назад

    Guys I think pug likes pugs

  • @jaxsonbodenhamer349
    @jaxsonbodenhamer349 2 года назад

    😡😡😡😡 I am highly offended 1:40

  • @Ethan1234gaming
    @Ethan1234gaming 2 года назад +1

    Bark bark

  • @theboredtrainkid6094
    @theboredtrainkid6094 2 года назад

    If there is pugs that are dogs and 0-4-0s what about terriers

    • @johndavies1090
      @johndavies1090 2 года назад

      Stroudley's famous 'Terrier's got their nickname from the sharp bark of their exhaust on the London suburban trains for which they were designed. Similarly, in parts of Kent and Sussex terrier dogs were known as 'rooters', which term was also applied to the engines.

    • @theboredtrainkid6094
      @theboredtrainkid6094 2 года назад

      @@johndavies1090 I said that because 0-4-0s are called pugs and 0-6-0 are called terriers funny they are named after dogs

  • @machanicalgu
    @machanicalgu 2 года назад +1

    If your reading this, your a pug

  • @katongski20
    @katongski20 2 года назад +13

    You know, I asked this question myself. I'm genuinely surprised a video for it was made. Thanks man!

  • @thestandardfour0699
    @thestandardfour0699 2 года назад

    I never really asked this question.. just sorta went with it. maybe, you could do a video on " Big Bertha " the lickey incline banker

  • @mistermadmachine6311
    @mistermadmachine6311 2 года назад

    🤔I never knew
    Also 😱big pug

  • @class_31clag
    @class_31clag 2 года назад

    comment answer below
    Two iconic pugs (if you are a fan of TS series's) are twins, small, do mad experiments and are green, carried a small railgun and have traveled through time, dimensions and even turned sir Oliver Cromwell into a 0-4-0

  • @josjos-x5s
    @josjos-x5s 2 года назад

    So "pug" is a slur in the Thomas universe?????
    Dam shiz really is dark....

  • @metal_wheels
    @metal_wheels 2 года назад

    I would love to see a pug being named "Pluto"

  • @jaxsonbodenhamer349
    @jaxsonbodenhamer349 2 года назад

    I’m just making me feel more bad about my self all of the big engines are making fun of me because I AM A PUG D:

  • @Steves00gauge
    @Steves00gauge 2 года назад

    Pugs not drugs kids, or pugs and drugs, do what you want I’m not your dad sonny jim

  • @the_autism_express
    @the_autism_express 2 года назад

    Wouldn't the GWR trojan count as a pug?

  • @willywa1684
    @willywa1684 2 года назад

    my favorite kind of pug is fat

  • @DKJ387
    @DKJ387 2 года назад

    Pug rws

    • @DKJ387
      @DKJ387 2 года назад

      You forgot that

  • @theoneandonlynumber1253
    @theoneandonlynumber1253 2 года назад

    So they are called pugs huh I was calling them the midget engines XD

  • @klipsfilmsmelbourne
    @klipsfilmsmelbourne 2 года назад

    if someone made a poor comedy pug is a slur for engines if one racist engine would say that

  • @magdos7160
    @magdos7160 2 года назад +1

    1152nd