locomotive
Train's power source
A locomotive is the engine that pulls a train—the self-propelled vehicle that provides motive power for railroad cars.
The word can also function as an adjective meaning relating to movement or capable of moving: locomotive power, locomotive ability.
In older usage, any self-moving machine might be called a locomotive.
Water-heating vessel
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- tenderSoft or sore
- whistleShrill air-blown sounder
smokestack · chuff · piston · cylinder · pressure · valve · injector · safety-valve
Machine producing motion
- turbochargerExhaust-powered engine booster
- exhaustUse up entirely
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
- radiatorHeat transfer device
Technical design professional
- firemanEmergency blaze responder
- cabVehicle for hire
- headlightForward-facing vehicle lamp
- bellHollow resonating instrument
coupler · trucks · bogie · pilot · cowcatcher · livery · consist · helper
Adhesive friction enabling movement
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- haulingTransporting heavy items
- pullingForce toward oneself
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
acceleration · velocity · drawbar · adhesion · slipping · reciprocating · chuffing · chugging
Gravity-formed suspension curve
- pantographMechanical scaling duplicator
- substationPower distribution point
- voltageElectrical potential difference
- amperageElectrical flow quantity
boiler
Water-heating vessel
whistle · smokestack · chuff · piston · cylinder · pressure · valve · injector · safety-valve · condensation
engine
Machine producing motion
- turbochargerExhaust-powered engine booster
- exhaustUse up entirely
- generatorElectricity-producing machine
radiator · cab · switcher · GE · horsepower · torque · idling · notch
engineer
Technical design professional
bell · coupler · trucks · bogie · pilot · cowcatcher · livery · consist · helper · pusher
traction
Adhesive friction enabling movement
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- haulingTransporting heavy items
- pullingForce toward oneself
momentum · acceleration · velocity · drawbar · adhesion · slipping · reciprocating · chuffing · chugging · rumbling
catenary
Gravity-formed suspension curve
- pantographMechanical scaling duplicator
- substationPower distribution point
- voltageElectrical potential difference
amperage · kilowatts · inverter · transformer · electrification
switcher
Changes between inputs
- shunterLocomotive for repositioning cars
- articulatedHaving segments that bend
- MikadoJapanese imperial title
Pacific · Atlantic · mogul · decapod · Prairie · Hudson · Mountain · streamliner
- rail transportfreight train, train stations, passenger train, commuter train, express train
- railroadsteam engine, train car, caboose, passenger car, freight car
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- historic transportcarriage, horse-drawn carriage, coach, phaeton, stagecoach
- inventionsprinting press, steam engine, lightbulb, light bulb, microscope
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
locomotivecaboose
Crew shelter, train's end
freight car · passenger car · railcar · boxcar · flatcar
locomotivestationary
Not in motion
immobile · static · motionless · sedentary · fixed
- steam locomotivesRail engines using vapor
- diesel locomotivesFuel-burning railway vehicles
- locomotive whistleSound device on engines
- electric locomotiveRail engine using current