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What is a railway consist?
When used as a noun, and in railway terms, a 'consist' refers to a formation of rolling stock put together to make a train.
In the UK we mainly call that a rake, especially when referring to coaches, but over in the US, the word 'consist' is much more readily used.
A consist doesn't specifically have to be a train of any particular type. Although the term is most often used to refer to a bank of locomotives, whole trains formed of coaches, wagons or any other type of rolling stock are also commonly referred to as consists.
It's not clear where and when the name first started to be used. Some say that a consist can be an engine (or multiple engines) with or without a train, others say a consist is a train with or without an engine. The truth is, the word is used as generically and interchangeably as the word 'train' and means something different to different people, but fundamentally, a consist is simply a train made up of X Y and Z whatever that may be.
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