Sentence examples for small locomotives from inspiring English sources

Instead of trailers or pickups, the weekend warriors travel with huge, complex barbecue rigs, some resembling small locomotives, that in one participant's estimation can cost as much as $20,000.

Still others, like the Goodman Equipment Corporation, a maker of small locomotives for mining and tunnel building, are shipping their main products in the old volumes, but feeling the slowdown in sales of spare parts, a secondary source of revenue.

From the following year a number of small locomotives were fitted so that they could work with these trailers, the combined sets becoming known as "autotrains" and eventually replacing the steam rail motors.

"In Alaus?this small locomotive awaited us.

While Thomas is only a small locomotive, he has big aspirations.

One of them shows a "mule boy," perhaps 12 years old, working beside one of the tens of thousands of mules that used to live in the mines, hoisting the heavy coal trucks up to the surface, before they were replaced by small locomotive cars.

The 2-6-4 wasel arranotment was not in common use in Great Britain at this time, as many railway companies operated routes that required locomotives with greater fuel capacity, or short branch lines that necessitated smaller locomotives.

Likewise, more Light Pacifics were built than were needed, frequently undertaking tasks that would usually befit a much smaller locomotive.

Greathead had originally planned for the trains to be hauled by a pair of small electric locomotives, one at each end of a train, but the Board of Trade rejected this proposal and a larger locomotive was designed which was able to pull up to seven carriages on its own.

By this point, our ship had pulled abreast of the median strip, and we had a good view of the small electric locomotives, known as mules, which would guide us through the locks.

I now can't remember the name – it might have been Radley, it could have been Stowe – but I knew immediately what it was: a member of old Southern Railway's Schools class, built in the 1930s to the design of Richard Maunsell, and in their day the most powerful small express locomotives in Europe.