How To Use steam locomotive In A Sentence
- The steam locomotive was travelling backwards from Rawtenstall to Ramsbottom, pulling three carriages carrying 20 passengers.
- The technology came from England, where steam locomotives were first used to haul cars along tracks at the beginning of the century. America Past and Present
- Steam locomotives were introduced in the 1860s and today, tourists can take journeys pulled by them. Times, Sunday Times
- The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service.
- The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
- Once in Brazil he took passage on the old Madeira-Mamoré railway, a steam locomotive that ran two hundred miles through the forest to Porto Velho, then a small Brazilian trading center on the upper Madeira River. One River
- For example, the best of the reciprocating steam locomotives never delivered in the form of tractive effort at the draw-bar as much as 10 percent of the heat energy that was contained in the coal and placed in the firebox. Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution
- The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
- Even though by 1960 the old steam locomotives were abandoned for the much more efficient diesel-electric locomotives, the tide could not be turned.
- Since British Railways withdrew steam in 1968, the number of footplate crews qualified to drive steam locomotives on the main line has dropped dramatically, and the few left are approaching retirement age.
