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Definition of Pilot engine
1. Noun. A locomotive that precedes a train to check the track.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilot Engine
Literary usage of Pilot engine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The engine called the pilot-engine furnishes another instance of' the Company's
care and forethought. Let but any train exceed its time by a certain number ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1853)
"He returned with a pilot engine. " When we got there, some persons had dug ...
A pilot engine is appointed to conduct all trains over the dangerous parts ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1841)
"... the means aforesaid, and not otherwise : and that the said locomotive pilot
engine called the Basilisk, and the said locomotive pilot engine called the ..."
4. The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive by Thomas Tredgold (1850)
"... to assist a goods train up an incline, the pilot engine-man must take great
... to strike the train sideways before it passes clear of the pilot engine. ..."
5. Railway Locomotive Management, in a Series of Letters by Veritas vincit (1847)
"A pilot-engine at Stafford would be a great pecuniary saving, ... the pilot-engine ;
and the saving of the heavy expense of wear and tear and consumption of ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1842)
"Should any obstruction in the road stop the pilot engine, or disturb its course,
... 2 a pilot engine, by which the making and breaking of the current, ..."
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