a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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of or relating to locomotion
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Locomotive \Lo"co*mo`tive\, n. A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
{Consolidation locomotive}, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers.
{Locomotive car}, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [U.S.]
{Locomotive engine}. Same as {Locomotive}, above.
{Mogul locomotive}. See {Mogul}.
Locomotive \Lo"co*mo`tive\, a. [Cf. F. locomotif. See {Locomotion}.] 1. Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
2. Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
Valley Railroad President Lynn Parrott said the $300,000 price for the new locomotive was worth it.
General Motors of Canada Ltd., a unit of General Motors Corp., said its diesel division received railroad locomotive orders from Indonesia and Algeria valued at a total of 146 million Canadian dollars (US $118.4 million).
The locomotive and four of the 10 cars plunged off the bridge over the Jaibo River and fell nearly 75 feet, the report said.
But the accident investigation has found the weight of the train was about 8,900 tons, and that possibly only two of the locomotive had "dynamic braking" capability _ which Dickenson described as akin to downshifting on a car to help slow it.
The conductor, riding in the lead locomotive, was killed and two engineers and a signalman were injured.
A multimillion-dollar opera-ballet starring 8,000 dancers and musicians, 100 sheep, two elephants and a locomotive will highlight July 14 celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison.
Serious hobbyists can spend hundreds of dollars on a single locomotive.
Much of the company's locomotive fleet is old and outmoded.
Bob Richardson, director of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, has said he thinks it unlikely that the Kansas Pacific Railroad would have left such a large, expensive locomotive in the sand.
"Everyplace else, safety first." The locomotive was built 48 years ago in Berlin.
He just didn't care." In the plea bargain, the 16 original misdemeanor charges of manslaughter by locomotive were consolidated into a single charge. The move reduced Gates' possible prison time from 80 years to five years.
Add singer Annie Lennox's dry delivery, and the resulting sounds have both the pulse and personality of a locomotive.
The champagne was broken out, the steam locomotive admired, the whistle blew and everyone went to dress for dinner.
The 650 employees at the Huntington works enjoyed steak dinners Wednesday to celebrate a 90-day, no-problem run by the first locomotive rebuilt at the shop.
Authorities said the accident occurred when railroad workers tried to switch locomotives on a freight train because the heater in one locomotive had failed.
Loud stereo music may have prevented a school bus driver from hearing a locomotive warning horn moments before the train and bus collided, killing him and a young passenger, authorities said.
GM's railway locomotive unit said that entrepreneur Roger Penske is one of six potential investors considering buying a stake in the operation.
The celebration was scheduled to get under way today with the arrival of Southern Pacific's "Daylight" locomotive 4449 that pulled the "Freedom Train" across the United States during the nation's 1976 bicentennial.
"We are the locomotive that is pulling the nation to modernization," Mayor Socrates Rizzo says now.
The locomotive also left the track and overturned.
Workers at the locomotive factory make about 1,000 marks, or $600, and the union is demanding a 400-mark _ $240 _ increase.
"I want to be the white knight here; I don't want to be the bad boy, although I'm coming perilously close to it," he tells a visitor to his office, which is decorated with a model Santa Fe locomotive and a life-sized painting of a Santa Fe boxcar door.
Hull said he then saw the brakeman on his train, Charles S. DeSantis, fall from the lead locomotive.
The accident happened when the locomotive disconnected and the wagons collided with each other, the agency said.
A rail placed across train tracks by vandals derailed a high-speed locomotive with 368 passengers aboard, but no one was injured, railway officials said Monday.
There's one locomotive with his initials, FAS, in diamonds; a crystal replica of the 1925 Chattanooga Choo Choo and two dozen 1895-1900 engine replicas.
GM doesn't disclose annual revenue for its locomotive operations, but it's estimated to be less than $1 billion.
The caboose and a few cars are still usable, but the track and track bed need replacing and the locomotive must be rebuilt, with parts impossible to find, said Kintzele.
Even the West German "locomotive" has had to contend with stagnant employment for over a decade.
CSX said rail pretax operating profit rose 7.8%, reflecting improved coal tonnage that offset the extra expense of an expanded locomotive repair program.