| 单词 | prairie engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie engine 3. Chiefly U.S. Also with capital initial. More fully prairie engine. A type of steam locomotive with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement, with the middle six being driven. Cf. mountain n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > other types of steam locomotive pilot1842 bogie engine1843 saddle tank1871 saddle tank engine1888 prairie1900 single1901 1900 Nebraska State Jrnl. 29 May 7/2 New style locomotive..will arrive in Lincoln sometime today... It is of a style called the ‘prairie’ engine... The grate area is forty-two square feet... This enables the ‘prairie’ engine to burn a lower grade of fuel. 1911 Times 31 May 27/3 The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad has recently converted two Prairie type freight locomotives into a single Mallet locomotive. 1945 J. L. Marshall Santa Fe xvii. 281 Over a twisting track..Fred Jackson took the..big, high-wheeled prairie engine, around the curves at sixty-five miles an hour. 1981 B. Carter Black Fox Running (1982) xxxiv. 221 The metal shelf shook and vibrated and the ‘prairie’ rolled on. 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxvi. 201 (caption) A prairie tank runs ‘tender first’out of Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway. 2003 D. Borsvold Railroading in Conneaut, Ohio 44 The Prairies were developed in the late nineteenth century as a more powerful successor to the 4-4-0 Americans. < as lemmas |
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