A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks.
1Even the genius of James Sullivan had not foreseen the railway locomotive.
2It can not be very much above that, and is therefore slower than a railway locomotive.
3So we lunched, and far away we heard a sound which showed us how completely our wilderness days were over-thescreech of a railway locomotive.
4"Is it true that he goes at the pace of a railway locomotive?" asked Wilkins.
5The wind brought the whistle of the railway locomotives and the clanking of a steam-dredger in the river, like a giant toiling in massive chains.
6'That's the engine he talks so much about,' said Non, indicating a model railway locomotive; that one marked five shillings.'
Translations for railway locomotive