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the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.

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And we do mean drunken—in the keep your kids at home, pull the shades kind of drunken.
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Strange to say, the silken cord yielded to the first pull, as if nothing had been wrong with it at all!
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