I'm embarrassed (but will still) ask how the word "consist" is pronounced with regards to trains. Is the same as the other use of the word, or is the accent on the first syllable? Thanks.
My understanding has been that, for railroading, it is pronounced as you suspected, with the accent on the first syllable: CON' sist.
For example, my thinking is that one could say, "That CONsist conSISTs of only boxcars.
P.S. I had to look-up what a consist actually was, wondering if it were synonymous with train , meaning it included the locomotive , or if a consist meant only every RR-car that follows and is connected to the locomotive. This I have once again asked myself, but still am not certain (!) I'm confessing that, here and now, because your candor inspired me to do so, BwanaBob.
When I searched "railroad consist," I found that the terms train and consist seemed to be used interchangeably, synonymously. In fact, at one of the search sites I went to, this .......was one of the photos presented in explanation, which did not seen to precisely distinguish between train and consist, at least, not to me (unless I'm having a slow day?)
FrankM