locomotive
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As she crossed the border, Anna Klymenko, a dermatologist in Kyiv, saw the locomotive that Russia had destroyed the day before.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
At every stop of its coast-to-coast tour, grown men are welling up, said Ed Dickens, Union Pacific’s chief locomotive engineer for Big Boy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
More than one analyst thinks it’s oversold and that a reversal is coming with buying from central banks the chief locomotive for any move upwards.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
A third character was named Henry, an engine who hated the rain and was actually inspired by a real American locomotive that had gone wrong and was left in a tunnel.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The locomotive was a gleaming scarlet, with a forbidding front grille of inky black.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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In August alone, some 40 locomotives were attacked across Ukraine, Pertsovsky told AFP in a telephone interview.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
But Langer said she believes diesel engines will eventually be replaced, in much the same way diesel-electric locomotives replaced steam engines last century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Once they lowered engines, boilers or heavy cargoes like steam locomotives into the belllies of ships.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Completed in 1931, one of its main uses was loading steam locomotives from the St Rollox works into cargo holds before they were exported around the world.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Half a dozen locomotives stood in the trainyard exhaling steam into the already-yellow sky.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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