Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.