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The railroad placed helper engines on eastbound trains at Thistle for the ascent to Soldier Summit.

The curve is still busy as part of Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line and,, was passed by 51 scheduled freight trains each day, not including locals and helper engines which can double the number.

The steep grades in Rogers Pass required huge horsepower in helper (pusher) engines.

Have a helper rev the engine.

Have a helper rev the engine while you check the gauge.

Ask a helper to start the engine.

The needle on the pressure gauge will rise and once the needle has risen to its maximum reading your helper should stop the engine.

It'll take some touch to get it right, so it helps to have a couple of helpers to rev the engine, check the number, and twist the distributor.

About.com, a top-of-the-range search engine, allocates human helpers to its searchers: the service is great, the business model less convincing.

By Morris Markey The New Yorker, June 20 , 1936P. 42 REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip over the Pennsylvania Road to Washington in the engine cab, with A.A. Redmile engineer, and H.B. Ward, helper - Engine No. 4807.

One of the nicest features of the SecureRandom engine is that it declares a number of helper methods that are used to generate more than just random bytes of data.