Examples of 'steam traction' in a sentence
Meaning of "steam traction"
steam traction ~ the application of steam power for locomotion or movement, usually referring to steam-powered vehicles such as trains or steamboats. It involves the use of steam engines to generate the force necessary for propulsion
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Freight trains still used steam traction.
Steam traction was used throughout the duration of operation.
This replaced the steam traction on the line entirely.
Steam traction is still dominant.
This was a serious challenge throughout the period of steam traction.
This company introduced steam traction with five steam locomotives.
The thresher was driven from the flywheel of a steam traction engine.
Most lines had steam traction until dieselisation became widespread.
Their unqualified success played a large part in the eventual demise of SAR steam traction.
This world record for steam traction was widely regarded as an astonishing feat.
In contrast the Leipzig-Dresden Railway used only steam traction from its beginning.
It had permission for steam traction but was entirely run with horse traction.
The Battipaglia-Reggio Calabria railway was built with a single track and operated with steam traction.
Steam traction was in use and the tunnel was filled with smoke from the locomotives.
Leandre Janelle ran his George White steam traction engine and drove about the site.
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Steam traction was adopted on the Elgin line.
Nine 9F locomotives avoided being scrapped at the end of steam traction on British Railways.
A steam traction engine in Hampton Court maze!
A4 Pacific Mallard, world speed record holder for steam traction.
Goods traffic was hauled by steam traction until 1964 and thereafter with diesel locomotives.
Steam traction became obsolete in the 1940s and was largely replaced by diesel or electric traction.
The railway linking the two communes was not commissioned until 1871, with steam traction.
Heritage trips using steam traction and the original carriages still take 1 hour, 17 minutes.
The Hetton colliery railway opened in 1822 with steam traction.
From late 1970s steam traction was replaced with diesel locomotives PKP class Lyd2.
They were withdrawn and scrapped by 1959, when steam traction on Israel Railways officially ceased.
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