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Any mode or method of locomotion that serves to move people, goods or services from one location to another.

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tender
Transportation; Railway

The vehicle attached to a locomotive carrying water and coal (or other fuel). Some locomotives do not have tenders - see Tank Locomotive. The name 'Tender Locomotive' is sometime ...

tender brake
Transportation; Railway

The only means by which early locomotives were stopped. A hand wheel or lever on the tender was connected to brake blocks acting on the tender wheels.

testing plant, static locomotive
Transportation; Railway

There were six special steam locomotive static testing stations built in the world: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA in 1904, Swindon, UK in 1905, Purdue University USA, Grunewald, ...

stoker
Transportation; Railway

US term for Fireman.

stroke, piston
Transportation; Railway

The length of the movement of the piston inside the cylinder and often quoted as an essential dimension of a locomotive's design.

superheated steam
Transportation; Railway

Steam which has been reheated or 'dried' after its production in the boiler. Superheated steam has less water vapour and will therefore not condense as rapidly as 'wet' or ...

superheater elements
Transportation; Railway

The coils of pipes provided inside the larger flue tubes of the boiler through which saturated steam from the boiler passes to enable its temperature to be raised.

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