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locomotives
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, motor coach, railcar or power car; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for freight. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, push-pull operation has become common, where the train may have a locomotive (or locomotives) at the front, at the rear, or at each end. Most recently railroads have begun adopting DPU or distributed power. The front may have one or two locomotives followed by a mid-train locomotive that is controlled remotely from the lead unit.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of locomotives in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of locomotives in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of locomotives in a Sentence
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
We have invested around 30 million euros to acquire trains, including six received today, we are still waiting for nine locomotives that will add to the 20 that are already in service.
We don't have any orders because the government is not renewing its aging fleet of TGV (high-speed) trains ... and it's no longer ordering any locomotives.
The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825:
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
From nuclear cooperation to railway locomotives, we are sowing the seeds of an ever-tightening web of cooperation between our two countries.
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