Sentence examples for freight engine from inspiring English sources

Headed west, we killed an engine in Nebraska, picked up a freight engine south of Denver that burned out east of Santa Fe, and then coasted into Albuquerque for a four-hour midnight replacement.

He slaps rice into a Styrofoam plate, shaves off layers of hanging beef, chops chicken on a fryer billowing smoke like a freight engine and steaming up the small grill area like a sauna.

The highly unusual and controversial design represents the ultimate development of the British 0-6-0 freight engine, capable of hauling trains that were usually allocated to much larger locomotives on other railways.

While freight engines look the same as they did in the 1970s, there has been a total transformation under the hood.

Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, he dropped out of school at the age of fourteen to work on the railroads, scraping the grease from the trucks of freight engines.

An interactive education center shows how steam engines work, and visitors can operate the controls of a freight locomotive in a cab simulator as a video screen displays a local run.

She graduated from Oklahoma State University, where she majored in aviation science, went on to become a flight instructor and later piloted twin-engine freight planes and commuter planes.

They range in size from single-engine freight carriers to the Boeing 747 and in speed from below 200 miles per hour to supersonic, in the case of the Anglo-French Concorde, which was in service from 1976 to 2003.

"I wish they were just as outraged over graffiti on other people's private property," said Lena Kent, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, whose freight cars and engines are tagged on a daily basis.

The boat rocked as if we were taking on a passenger or some freight, and then the engine kicked in again, and the boat picked up speed, and, after a few more minutes, breathing shallowly, I was released.

The trip takes one hour from N. Y. to the pier due to switching of engines and attaching of empty freight cars in front of the pushing engine, as fire laws prevent engine from going on the pier.