locomotive engine
Pulls the cars
A locomotive engine is a self-propelled railway vehicle that pulls or pushes trains along tracks.
The term is somewhat redundant—locomotive alone means the same thing—but appears in technical contexts and older usage: The locomotive engine hauled forty freight cars up the mountain grade.
Steam, diesel, and electric are the main types.
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- trainRail vehicle or instruct
- train tracksMetal rails for locomotives
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- railroad crossingWhere road meets tracks
tracks · whistle · coal · coal car · boiler · wheels · conductor · freight · freight train · passenger · iron · pistons · smoke · chugging · station · railway · train whistle · diesel
- enginesV8, turbine, outboard motor, electric motor, inline-six
- rail tractiontraction, diesel-electric, drive wheels, adhesion, pantograph
- rail carsrailcar, freight car, passenger car, train car, hopper car
- diesel partsfuel injector, glow plug, fuel pump, piston, cylinder head
function in rail consist
locomotive enginepassenger car
Vehicle for transporting people
freight car · railway carriage · rolling stock · boxcar · coach
locomotive, engine, locomotion, locomote, loco, motive, motion, move, movement