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Most steam locomotives are reciprocating units, in which the pistons are coupled to the drivers ( driving wheels ) by means of connecting rods.
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Most of our working days were spent on the telephone calling `` bookies '', illegal gambling dens, a certain `` residential club for young actresses '', more than a hundred different bars or the steam room of the athletic club.
Most laboratory benches are equipped with multiple gas nozzles connected to a central gas source, as well as vacuum, nitrogen, and steam nozzles.
Most devices used in the industrial revolution were referred to as engines, and this is where the steam engine gained its name.
Most steam-driven applications use steam turbines, which are more efficient than piston engines.
Most mobile steam engines and some smaller stationary engines discard the low-pressure steam instead of condensing it for reuse.
Most steam turbines use a mixture of the reaction and impulse designs: each stage behaves as either one or the other, but the overall turbine uses both.
Most steam tunnels have large intake fans to bring in fresh air and push the hot air out the back.
Most active steam tunnels do not contain airborne asbestos but proper breathing protection may be required for other hazards.
Most of the electric boats of this era were small passenger boats on non-tidal waters at a time when the only power alternative was steam.
Most calliopes disappeared in the mid-20th century, as steam power was replaced with other power sources.
Most of these whistles were steam powered and not standardized.
Most commercial carrying on the river had stopped by World War I, although Banhams operated two steam tugs and three barges until the late 1930s, carrying gas water from Cambridge Gasworks to King's Lynn, where it was used in the manufacture of fertiliser.
Most modern water boiler tube designs are within the capacity range 4, 500 – 120, 000 kg / hour of steam, at very high pressures.
Most boilers produce steam to be used at saturation temperature ; that is, saturated steam.
Most warships used steam propulsion from the 1860s until the advent of the gas turbine in the early 20th century.
Most thermal power stations produce steam, and these are sometimes called steam power stations.
Most commonly, exhaust gases from a gas turbine are used to generate steam for a boiler and steam turbine.
Most of the survivors later served in the Lake Onega flotilla, using old captured ships, including a steam engined paddlewheeler.
Most have a steam room ( or wet sauna ), dry sauna, showers, lockers, and small private rooms.
Most of these groups had their beginnings in the demise of steam from New Zealand Railways during the era.
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Most diesel locomotives and electric locomotives are carried on bogies ( trucks-US ).
Most long-distance trains in Japan had been operated by locomotives until the 1950s, but by utilizing and enhancing the technology of short-distance urban MU trains, long-distance express MU-type vehicles were developed and widely introduced starting in the mid-1950s.
Most long-distance trains in North America are locomotive-hauled and use a process called Multi-Unit control to control multiple locomotives, this does not make these locomotives MUs.
Most of the Morgan turnout patents included movable rack sections to avoid breaks in the rack, but because all Morgan locomotives had two linked drive pinions, there was no need for a continuous rack.
Most of the locomotives have been transferred to the freight division CargoNet.
Most are long wheelbase 0-8-0 locomotives that use an articulation technique incorporating a geared drive to the outer-most axles, the inner pair being direct-drive.
Most of the locomotives were sold to the freight company CargoNet AS, but the models El18 and Di4 remain to pull passenger trains.
Most recently, Vale Mining has ordered a set of 7 updated locomotives designated as SD80ACe's.
Most Soviet, Czech ( USSR ordered the passenger electric locomotives to Czech Skoda factory ), Russian and Ukrainian locomotives can only operate as DC or as AC.
Most were used by a variety of industrial users, but some railroads also bought Davenport locomotives, particularly of the 44-ton size, that being the largest locomotive then allowed by union rules to be operated by one man.
Most notably, Canadian Pacific 2800 series 4-6-4 Hudson class of locomotives.
Most road locomotives are fitted with a winch drum on the back axle.
Most of the early societies were established to acquire and preserve locomotives and rolling stock, with a short line on which to operate and in some cases extensive museum type displays.
Most US roads discontinued use of steam locomotives by the 1950s.
Most of Bassett-Lowke's locomotives were designed by Henry Greenly who was a contributor to Model Engineer magazine.
Most 261 excursions are assisted by modern diesel-electric locomotives, required by and provided by Amtrak.
Most of the rail equipment went to Conrail as well, but 24 locomotives ( units GP38-2 314-325 and C420 404-415 ) went to the Delaware & Hudson instead.
Most cowl units have been passenger-hauling locomotives.
Most modern diesel and electric locomotives can run equally well in either direction, and many have control cabs at each end.
Most services on the line are currently hauled by diesel locomotives, and run on occasional weekends and bank holidays.
Most water-tube railway locomotives, especially in Europe, used the Schmidt system.
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