The person who operates a full-scale train (locomotive) is the engineer.
Other crew positions are the conductor (who is also the operator on a trolley or streetcar), the brakeman (safety and mechanical crewman), and the fireman (on old-style steam locomotives) who may be simply a stoker.
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In the UK he was and is always simply the Driver, assisted by the Fireman who was never called the 'stoker', on a steam-locomotive. ("He": & she now as there are women drivers now.) "Stoker" was used in the Royal and Merchant Navies for a ship's boiler-room crew-member.
The person who operates a full-scale train (locomotive) is the engineer.
On urban or subway trains, he may be called the motorman.
Other crew positions are the conductor (who is also the operator on a trolley or streetcar), the brakeman (safety and mechanical crewman), and the fireman (on old-style steam locomotives) who may be simply a stoker.
The locomotive engineer drives the train.
He is called the Engineer, or Locomotive Engineer.
A "Pilot" is a person who drives a plane.
A person that drives a passenger actually drives the car for the owner. This special essential person is called a Chauffeur.
Pilot.
pilot
Chauffeur
A musher
A person who drives a car is commonly referred to as a motorist.
Truck Driver
A danger on the road.
taxi driver
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