Locomotive emoji meaning

The locomotive emoji is a graphic of a large, steam-powered train engine. The locomotive is depicted in various shades of black and is shown with a number of wheels and a smokestack at the front. The emoji is meant to represent a train or railroad, and is often used to express the idea of transportation or travel by train. It can also be used more broadly to represent the idea of progress or movement forward.

The locomotive emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09114