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Bimodal locomotive

A separate section,if not a separate article, about locomotives that are build to run as an electric or as a diesel electric would be useful. Peter Horn.2 (talk) 18:40, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More explanation needed

Reading this article, I have no idea what the difference is between the subject and other types of trains. The article ought to be edited to highlight this difference.--Mr. Guye (talk) 21:19, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The opening sentence tries to provide this, but I agree it is not super clear. Would something like "A locomotive is a railway vehicle that hauls a train of freight- or passenger- carrying vehicles. It provides the motive power and does not itself carry freight or passengers." be any clearer? Railfan23 (talk) 22:25, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Literally, a "locomotive" is simply a self-moving vehicle. The name doesn't imply either railway use or hauling other vehicles. Murdock and Trevithick's first locomotive vehicles weren't either.

This article ought to make clear the subset relation between the common implied meaning (only for railway haulage is the term in common use) and the literal. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:25, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Salamanca

The first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, might be worthy of being put as the/a main image on the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doomotron (talk • contribs) 00:25, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

etymology

The etymology section states that "the term locomotive engine... was first used in 1814" but it was certainly in use in 1812-1813 as evidenced by the publication of a patent Granted to William Chapman, of Murton-House, in the County of Durham, Civil Engineer, and Edward Walton Chapman, of Willington-Ropery ... Rope-maker, (dated the 30th Day of December, 1812.) for Their Invention of "a Method, Or Methods, of Facilitating the Means, and Reducing the Expence of Carriage on Railways and Other Roads." Published by the Great Britain Patent Office, 1813. It contains three instances of the term loco-motive engine https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Copy_of_the_Specification_of_a_Patent_Gr/jSM4AQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1 Bodrugan (talk) 09:57, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Obtuse sentence needs revision

Article says, "Their inadequacy had increased with the existence of petrol and diesel locomotives." This sentence seems invalid and obtuse. Did the editor mean to say, "Petrol and diesel locomotives were more efficient than benzene"? (Appletonclack (talk) 14:39, 13 September 2024 (UTC))[reply]