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This has all the earmarks of a track buckle also, sometimes a locomotive, which is heavier, will make it through. – Russ Quimby	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The trend in consumer spending growth still looks very solid, consumers remain the locomotive of the economy. – Michael Feroli	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Unfortunately, the last memory I have on the way back is approaching and passing the platforms in North Philadelphia, the next thing that I remember is when I came to my senses, I was standing up in the locomotive cab after the accident. – Brandon Bostian	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A steam locomotive engineer is referred as a 'hogger'; Does this reference have to do with his 'lapping-up' many miles over the silver rails? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
I am not a buyer...that this is a crash. I think China has the ability to control a soft landing, but China is no longer a locomotive of global growth, and that has implications for companies and it has implications for commodities markets. – Mohamed El-Erian	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The journey will be taken on a 1970s vintage diesel locomotive, it's a very reliable train. There is a dining car and there are beds in the passenger car, too. – Simon Cockerell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is a lot of concern about the global growth outlook, and as much as people are welcoming better trends in the euro zone, they know it's not going to be a locomotive for growth. – Marc Ostwald	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago

This has all the earmarks of a track buckle also, sometimes a locomotive, which is heavier, will make it through.

– Russ Quimby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The trend in consumer spending growth still looks very solid, consumers remain the locomotive of the economy.

– Michael Feroli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Unfortunately, the last memory I have on the way back is approaching and passing the platforms in North Philadelphia, the next thing that I remember is when I came to my senses, I was standing up in the locomotive cab after the accident.

– Brandon Bostian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A steam locomotive engineer is referred as a 'hogger'; Does this reference have to do with his 'lapping-up' many miles over the silver rails?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

I am not a buyer...that this is a crash. I think China has the ability to control a soft landing, but China is no longer a locomotive of global growth, and that has implications for companies and it has implications for commodities markets.

– Mohamed El-Erian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The journey will be taken on a 1970s vintage diesel locomotive, it's a very reliable train. There is a dining car and there are beds in the passenger car, too.

– Simon Cockerell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is a lot of concern about the global growth outlook, and as much as people are welcoming better trends in the euro zone, they know it's not going to be a locomotive for growth.

– Marc Ostwald

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

– Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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