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lead and locomotive
In recent years, conventional locomotives have been used in place of slugs on service trains, remotely controlled from the lead locomotive configuration.
On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, " The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt — The 20th Century Express ": " At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.
The collision badly damages the cab of the lead locomotive and jams the front door of the second engine, an old EMD F-unit.
Jumbo was walking up to lead him to safety, but an unexpected locomotive hit Tom Thumb, killing him instantly.
* EMC EA / EB diesel locomotive, its cab-equipped lead unit
It combined the stability at speed of the 4-6-4 and 4-8-2 due to the 4-wheel lead truck, the greater adhesive weight of the 2-8-4 and 4-8-2 ( leading to greater traction, and allowing a larger, more powerful locomotive ) and the larger firebox supported by the 4-wheel trailing truck common to 2-8-4s and 4-6-4s ( allowing for freer steaming, particularly at speed ).
CP 4070, the lead locomotive, is in Quebec, though long out of service, but the second unit, CP 4067, has been scrapped.
All P32AC-DM models, unlike the P40 and P42DC models, lack the door on the rear of the locomotive that would normally lead to the next car, making it impossible to access the unit from either a coach or a trailing locomotive.
A booster engine for steam locomotives is a small two-cylinder steam engine back-gear-connected to the trailing truck axle on the locomotive or, if none, the lead truck on the tender.
On Saturday 15 May 2010, two years after its previous overhaul, Oliver Cromwell suffered from a cracks in the firebox and was moved to the GCR for an inspection which lead to the locomotive being withdrawn from service.
( The term " F40 " by itself can lead to confusion, because the first locomotive to bear that designation was the F40C, a passenger C-C locomotive derived from the SD40-2, similar to the SDP40F but with an HEP generator.
The lead locomotive, The " Socrates " made it across the bridge, while the second locomotive, The " Columbia " and 11 railcars including two express cars, two baggage cars, one smoking car, two passenger cars and three sleeping cars and a caboose fell into the ravine below, then igniting a raging fire.
GTW U-3-b class 4-8-4 Northern-type locomotive 6319 lead the first section of train # 21 with 15 passenger cars and GTW 4-8-4 Northern 6322 pulled the second section with 22 passenger cars.
The lead locomotive embedded itself nose-first into the canal bank and exploded, and the other locomotives, as well as the baggage car, dormitory car and two of the six passenger cars, plunged into the water.
A bridge, weakened by a flash flood, collapses under the Milwaukee Road's Olympian plunging the locomotive and seven lead cars into the rain-swollen creek.
These were classified as model TA — the T indicating Twelve hundred hp ( 890 kW ), the A indicating an A unit ( cab-equipped lead locomotive ).
The locomotive units were linked together with MU cables which enabled the crew in the lead unit at the front to control the trailing units.
Track occupancy is displayed via bold or colored lines overlaying the track display, along with tags to identify the train ( usually the number of the lead locomotive ).
An A unit, in railroad terminology, is a locomotive ( generally a diesel or electric locomotive ) equipped with a driving cab, or crew compartment, and the control system to control other locomotives in a multiple unit, and therefore able to be the lead unit in a consist of several locomotives controlled from a single position.

lead and Socrates
Socrates is convinced that virtues such as self-control, courage, justice, piety, wisdom and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy ( eudaimon ) life.
It is a typical moment of Socrates opposite a Sophist where the latter is using eloquent speech to hide arguments that might not stand logical scrutiny while the former is trying to use his notorious question / answer format that will lead to a logical conclusion in his favour.
This perspective, so typical of Italian humanism, could easily lead to reducing all philosophy to ethics, in a move reminiscent of Plato ’ s Socrates and of Cicero.
Socrates comments that as the speech seemed to make Phaedrus radiant, he is sure that Phaedrus understands these things better than he does himself, and that he cannot help follow Phaedrus ' lead into his Bacchic frenzy.
: section % 3D164e ></ ref > In the balance of the Charmides ( dialogue ), Plato has Socrates lead a longer inquiry as to how we may gain knowledge of ourselves.

lead and made
Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.
In February 1801, Oersted did manage to experiment with physical apparatus and reported experiments made with a voltaic battery of 600 plates of zinc and silver and of later experiments with a battery of 60 plates of zinc and lead.
The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.
Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.
Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.
The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.
One tablet from this period reads, "( From the earliest days ) no-one had made a statue of lead, ( but ) Rimush king of Kish, had a statue of himself made of lead.
The discovery and elucidation of aberration is now regarded as a classic case of the application of scientific method, in which observations are made to test a theory, but unexpected results are sometimes obtained that in turn lead to new discoveries.
A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.
One problem with sports arbitrage is that bookmakers sometimes make mistakes and this can lead to an invocation of the ' palpable error ' rule, which most bookmakers invoke when they have made a mistake by offering or posting incorrect odds.
Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.
Following a 12-year inquiry, Saville's report was made public on 15 June 2010, and contained findings of fault that could re-open the controversy, and potentially lead to criminal investigations for some soldiers involved in the killings.
Lower-priced jewelry may still use gold plating over pewter, nickel or other metals ; items made in countries outside the United States may contain lead.
These changes may be made either by the same writer who made it, or more commonly by an author that has taken over the creative lead of a corporate owned show or publication.
As a matter of safety, the face is typically made of thick lead glass so as to be highly shatter-resistant and to block most X-ray emissions, particularly if the CRT is used in a consumer product.
Although the census provides a useful way of obtaining statistical information about a population, such information can sometimes lead to abuses, political or otherwise, made possible by the linking of individuals ' identities to anonymous census data.
A bullet crossbow is a type of handheld crossbow which rather than arrows or bolts shoots spherical projectiles made of stone, clay or lead.
Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician and physiologist made note in his 1747 book on physiology that the " water " in the brain was secreted into the ventricles and absorbed in the veins, and when secreted in excess, could lead to hydrocephalus.
Though the combination of both companies ' PC manufacturing capacity initially made it the number one, it soon lost the lead and further market share to Dell which squeezed HP on low end PCs.
Machine-stamped tags were also made of brass or lead with a hole and usually had ( on one side ) an eagle or shield and such phrases as " War for the Union " or " Liberty, Union, and Equality ".

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