steam locomotive
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steam locomotive (plural steam locomotives)
(rail transport) A locomotive, usually for use on a railway, that is powered by steam.
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It's like a steam locomotive or a stone axe: just because it's obsolete doesn't make it any less of an achievement, or any less fit for purpose.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived (1782 to 1798).
A local steam locomotive industry developed from 1854 with the Phoenix Foundry operating until 1906. citation The railway came to the town with the opening of the Geelong-Ballarat line in 1862, citation and Ballarat developed as a major railway town.