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Definition of Locomotives
1. locomotive [n] - See also: locomotive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locomotives
Literary usage of Locomotives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1919)
"Santa Fé Type locomotives for the Wabash Railway (82766). Ills. 600 w. ...
Ten-Wheel locomotives for the Central Railroad of New Jersey (86819 A). ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Three years later the Rogers Locomotive Works shipped locomotives to Cuba, and
the export business was well under way. Even England and Continental Europe, ..."
3. The Elements of Railroad Engineering by William Galt Raymond (1913)
"The coal consumption per dynamometer horse.power hour, for the simple freight
locomotives tested, is at low speeds not less than 3.5 pounds nor more than ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"The smoke trouble with steam locomotives has, in fact, been one of the most ...
Steam locomotives, with their smoke and gases, could hardly do the work of ..."
5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1911)
"locomotives possibilities of combination electric propulsion. 2000 w. ... 15283 F.
Mechanical Features of Electric locomotives. GM Easton. ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"MAMMOTH locomotives. In despite of the fact daily demonstrated on the English
lines of the greater comparative cheapness of email locomotives, ..."
7. The Engineering Index by John Butler Johnson, Association of Engineering Societies, Henry Harrison Suplee, Johannes H. Cuntz, Charles Buxton Going (1896)
"American locomotives In New South Wales. Description of and summary of dimensions.
... locomotives. Standard Tests of . Report of committee on a standard ..."