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

&#xD83D;&#xDE82;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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