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Meyer locomotive

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A Meyer locomotive is a type of articulated locomotive. [1]

38 relations: Antofagasta Region, Articulated locomotive, Bernina railway, Chile, Colombia, Diesel locomotive, Electric locomotive, Fairlie locomotive, Garratt, Industrial railway, Jean-Jacques Meyer, Kent, Kitson and Company, Leeds, Locomotive, Mallet locomotive, Metre-gauge railway, Monarch (locomotive), Mountain railway, Narrow-gauge railway, Nitrate, Pontresina, Rhaetian Railway, Rotary snowplow, Saxon IV K, Saxony, Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway, Snow blower, South Africa, Sugarcane, Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Switzerland, Taltal, Tank locomotive, Transandine Railway, Uyuni, W. G. Bagnall, Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.

Antofagasta Region

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions.

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Articulated locomotive

The term "articulated locomotive" usually means a steam locomotive with one or more engine units which can move independent of the main frame.

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Bernina railway

The Bernina railway is a single-track railway line forming part of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB).

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Electric locomotive

An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.

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Fairlie locomotive

A Fairlie is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies.

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Garratt

A Garratt (often referred to as a Beyer Garratt) is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated into three parts.

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Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway (usually private) that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or a military site.

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Jean-Jacques Meyer

Jean-Jacques Meyer (1804–1877) was a French engineer, noted for his work with steam engines and steam locomotives.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kitson and Company

Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Mallet locomotive

The Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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Monarch (locomotive)

Monarch is a narrow gauge steam locomotive, built by W.G. Bagnall Ltd., Stafford in 1953.

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Mountain railway

A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.

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Pontresina

Pontresina (Romansh: Puntraschigna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Rhaetian Railway

The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn, Ferrovia Retica, Viafier Retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.

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Rotary snowplow

A rotary snowplow is a piece of railroad snow removal equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it.

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Saxon IV K

The Saxon IV K were eight-wheeled, narrow gauge, Günther-Meyer type steam engines built for the Royal Saxon State Railways with a track gauge of.

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Saxony

The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).

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Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway in Kent is a narrow gauge heritage railway that operates from Sittingbourne to the banks of The Swale.

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Snow blower

A snow blower or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is not wanted, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, railroad track, ice rink, or runway.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (German Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik; French Société Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et de Machines; or for both, SLM) was a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Switzerland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Taltal

Taltal is a Chilean commune and city in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Tank locomotive

A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender.

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Transandine Railway

The Transandine Railway (Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km.

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Uyuni

Uyuni (Aymara, uyu pen (enclosure), yard, cemetery, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one that has got a pen", "the one with a pen") is a city in the southwest of Bolivia.

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W. G. Bagnall

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Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) (Rheilffordd y Trallwng a Llanfair Caereinion) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_locomotive

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