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    A cowcatcher, also known as a pilot, is the device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles on the track that might otherwise damage or...
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  • completion of the First transcontinental railroad, where it was cowcatcher to cowcatcher with Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter (locomotive). List of highways...
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    and the building opened on October 1, 1902. Originally 20 floors, a "cowcatcher" retail space (a low attached building so called for its resemblance to...
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  • skinhead bar in the woods outside Portland, opening for the Nazi metal band Cowcatcher. After the show, Pat returns to the green room to retrieve Sam's phone...
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    sides. Some WAG-9(x)s are fitted with a solid cowcatcher while others are fitted with grilled cowcatchers. Some have American style flasher lamps while...
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    "Ariel", a Forney-type cab-forward locomotive: Front is to the left in this image (note location of headlight and cowcatcher)...
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  • & Friends and its reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go. Toby has cowcatchers and sideplates, and is the North Western Railway's number 7. He works...
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    axle) / Leading bogie 11 Smokebox 23 Piston 35 Brake hose 47 Pilot / Cowcatcher 12 Steam pipe 24 Cylinder 36 Water compartment 48 Coupler / Coupling Descriptions...
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    engineer's window and cab signals, with the Reading cars being fitted with a cowcatcher and twin overhead luggage racks. The first set of PRR cars, #201-216,...
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  • incorporates of the cosmetic changes made for the film (such as the longer cowcatcher and recessed headlight housing). Before the film was released, Bachmann...
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    000 L) of water and 12½ tons of coal, set up for hand-firing; a wooden cowcatcher pilot; a square-cased, old-fashioned headlight and piston tailrods (soon...
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    the racy, lunging lines of the great locomotives, with their prow-like cowcatchers, with its beautifully sustained movement." In 2015, leftist magazine...
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  • or wing, a part of a motor vehicle that frames a wheel well Fender, a "cowcatcher" on a tram Fender, part of a Western saddle Fender (company), a U.S. manufacturer...
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    and the tale of Sir John A Macdonald's wife Agnes Macdonald riding the cowcatcher across Canada. Tanglefoot's lineup from 2007 on was: Steve Ritchie (guitar...
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  • heart-shaped firebox, Tillie pulls the train out of the snow using her cowcatcher as a snowplow. The train descends the mountain and reaches the town in...
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  • was restored to 1895 vintage, including a wider smoke stack and a new cowcatcher (pilot) without a drop coupler. The Inyo is still operational and displayed...
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    smokestack was replaced with a diamond design suited for coal-burning, and its cowcatcher had been replaced with a wooden step for use in yard service. The locomotive's...
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    numbering cowcatcher "HC-30". 2516 Scrapped 2517 Scrapped 2518 Scrapped 2518 was scrapped in 2009. Had a text under its numbering cowcatcher "HC-29" when...
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  • the name of several Royal Navy ships Pilot (locomotive attachment), or cowcatcher, a device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles Pilot...
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  • and white diesel engine who gives Rusty a broom-plow in place of his cowcatcher and gives it back at the end of the film. Ray Porter as the Nightmare...
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    Ironman, Smartbar, Irvin Bullbars, AFN and Uneek. Automobile safety Cowcatcher (pilot) on locomotives Roadkill Frontal Protection System Off-roading...
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    became a 4-2-0. Later, the C&A also added a pilot ("cowcatcher") to the lead truck. The cowcatcher is an angled assembly designed to deflect animals and...
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    (11100-11103, later D2200-D2203) were fitted with side skirting and cowcatchers for use on the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway and on the Yarmouth Docks tramway...
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    She was also fitted with a device for removing mines, referred to as a "cowcatcher" by Farragut in his reports. Following were Hartford and Metacomet, Richmond...
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    opened Canadian Pacific Railway, Macdonald built Agnes a platform on the cowcatcher of the locomotive and had a chair nailed to it so she could better see...
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    had driven Agnes Macdonald (another prime minister's wife) to ride the cowcatcher of a Canadian Pacific Railway train through the British Columbia mountains...
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  • (typical of coal-burning locomotives), a circular headlamp, and a small cowcatcher. The No. 2 locomotive would pull six 1890s-style passenger cars designed...
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  • Rules" Thomas gets in trouble with a police constable for not having a cowcatcher or sideplates. When the Fat Controller hears about it, he buys Toby, who...
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    safety valves (and domes), smokeboxs and chimneys (with spark arrestors), cowcatchers, and brakes. There were subsequent reboilerings which raised the working...
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    Realizing that she was still immobile, he raced to the tip of the pilot (cowcatcher) and braced himself on it, reaching out as far as he could to pull the...
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