"engine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The steep grades posed operational problems, including congestion, slow speeds, and the need for helper engines.
- Byron Hill is noteworthy in that helper engines are sometimes still used to assist trains making it over the grade.
- No longer needed as a water stop, and with its helper engine obsolete, the Mill Fork railway station was closed down in 1947.
- There were two helper engines coupled at the rear of the train/' "Ten thousand tons?"
- But I had helper engines that could push on me from the back, so I was pretty sure we wouldn't break in two.
- This made it necessary to use helper engines and to make trains shorter.
- Locomotives with larger tenders were often used as helper engines.
- It was soon realized that helper engines would be needed on the eight-mile grade.
- Men were needed to run the helper engines, so more families moved in.
- The introduction of diesel locomotives, which eliminated the need for helper engines, further hurt the town's fortunes.
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