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- noun Plural form of
locomotive .
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Examples
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A 1991 recommendation to equip train locomotives with devices to alert conductors to dangers might have helped prevent a fatal accident six years later.
Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010
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These toy locomotives from the very early period of model training are really a find.
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A 1991 recommendation to equip train locomotives with devices to alert conductors to dangers might have helped prevent a fatal accident six years later.
Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010
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There is no escaping the fact that our economy is closely linked to the main locomotives of the world economy, many of which today stand still.
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There is no escaping the fact that our economy is closely linked to the main locomotives of the world economy, many of which today stand still.
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BOISE -- A Boise locomotive maker has won a major contract after the Federal Transit Authority rejected a waiver request Friday from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to buy locomotives from a Spanish company.
KTVB.com Local News 2008
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a survey of the line's locomotives from the Trust itself; proof that the line has a chequered history.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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a survey of the line's locomotives from the Trust itself; proof that the line has a chequered history.
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Yet when they arrived at the station by the ferry-side, they seemed to have entered its stifling darkness from fresh and vigorous atmosphere, so close and dead and mined with the carbonic breath of the locomotives was the air of the place.
Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878
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Yet when they arrived at the station by the ferry-side, they seemed to have entered its stifling darkness from fresh and vigorous atmosphere, so close and dead and mined with the carbonic breath of the locomotives was the air of the place.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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