steam locomotive

American  

noun

1. a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.

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Example Sentences

Once they lowered engines, boilers or heavy cargoes like steam locomotives into the belllies of ships.

From BBC

Farther off, whales blew jets of water from their blowholes like smoke from the smokestack of a Bloomer steam locomotive.

From Literature

But it was the steam locomotive itself that had overheated the little girl’s imagination.

From Literature

It is a piece of infrastructure forged in the fires of the UK's industrial heritage, including the world's first inter-city passenger line, and of course Stephenson's Rocket, the original steam locomotive.

From BBC

Dominating the street was a replica of an elevated train station and a steam locomotive acquired from a sugar plantation in Hawaii, where it had been used to transport workers.

From Los Angeles Times