what does your user name mean?

[hoghead]

Nice topic for a newbie. My username is: ‘hoghead’. A few of you might know what a 'hoghead' is/was but I doubt most will know. A hoghead is a railroad Locomotive Engineer - the guy that runs or 'drives' freight trains (drive is used in the UK but never in US or Canada - we run or operate trains). Some think it's a derisive term for an unskilled Engineer but that is most probably not correct - it is just slang for an Engineer. End of train, Hoghead aka Richard