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Tons of fire-breathing steel that taught the world to keep a schedule.
means A self-propelled engine, originally steam-powered, that pulls or pushes railway cars along a track.
from A 19th-century coinage stitched from Latin: loco, meaning 'from a place' (the ablative of locus, 'place'), plus motivus, 'causing motion' (from movere, 'to move'). Literally, then, 'moving from a place' — a fancy Latin badge for a machine whose whole point was to not stay put. The word first traveled as the adjective 'locomotive,' describing the power of self-movement, before it settled down as a noun naming the iron beast itself.
- steam debut
- Trevithick's first ran in 1804 hauling iron
- top speed
- Mallard hit 126 mph in 1938
- naming origin
- From Latin meaning to move from a place
- time zones
- Railroads forced standardized clocks worldwide
- diesel-electric
- Most burn fuel only to make electricity
flying scotsman — steam locomotive built 1923, first to reach 100 mph, still operates in uk
japanese shinkansen 0 series — bullet train locomotive, japan railways, 1964, revolutionized rail travel