Locomotive Emoji
Travel
A classic steam locomotive engine, typically depicted facing left with a smokestack, a cowcatcher, and a trailing coal car. It represents heavy rail transport from the industrial era.
Usage Context
Used to discuss train travel, railway transit, or the literal movement of cargo and passengers. It is often paired with 🚄 for high-speed rail comparisons or 🛤️ to show the environment it travels upon. It also appears in slang to describe something gaining momentum or a situation that cannot be stopped.
History
Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the locomotive design draws from early emoji sets developed by Japanese mobile carriers. These sets prioritized traditional modes of transportation to help users describe their daily commutes across the extensive Japanese rail network.
Details
Glyph
🚂
Unicode
U+1F682
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f682:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Travel
Subcategory transport-ground
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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