Locomotive designs are driven by geography, by traffic patterns, and by the service needed - switcher, commuter, local passenger, long-distance passenger, branchline freight, or time freight.

HIGH POINT, N.C. — Volunteers are building a Christmas locomotive — using only food going to The Salvation Army. People with the Designs to Fight Hunger High Point Project first started… ...

The Mallard’s whooshing lines and dashing curves didn’t come out of thin air. It was the result of the 1930s Art Deco design movement crashing headlong into steam-locomotive technology.

Cockroaches, it turns out, scurry along using multiple gaits and scientists have analyzed how they move from one gait to another in the hopes of inspiring new designs for locomotive robots.

Representatives from Cuban Union Railways (UFC) and Lyudinovo Locomotive Works (LTZ), Russia, together with other suppliers within the Sinara group have begun to finalize the specifications for a new ...

Object Details Notes Christmas Issue Date ca. 1970 Catalog number Scott Catalogue USA 1415 Physical Description Design file may contain any of the following: stamp designs; documents; correspondence; ...

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News Published: 14 March 1931 Experiments in Locomotive Design Nature 127, 409–410 (1931) Cite this article ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Latest Development in British Railway Locomotive Design” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 98 No. 16(April 1908), p. 272doi:10.1038 ...