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In a general sense, locomotion simply means active movement or travel, applying not just to biological individuals. Look up movement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term Movement has a variety of different meanings related to motion: Physical movement between points in space (A to B). The amount of movement is called distance. ... Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. ...

  • In engineering, Locomotion No. 1 is the name of an early steam railway locomotive, even older than Stephenson's Rocket.
  • Locomotion is a 1981 arcade game by Konami.
  • Locomotion (puzzle game) is a 1992 puzzle game by Andre Wuthrich published by Kingsoft. Music by Gunnar Gaubatz (info from Gamebase database)
  • "The Loco-Motion" is a 1960s hit song, originally performed by Little Eva, and its accompanying dance.
  • "Locomotion" is a museum in the town of Shildon, County Durham, England.
  • "Locomotion" was a cable TV channel in Latin America.
  • Locomotion is a young adult novel in poetic form by Jacqueline Woodson.

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Locomotive (269 words)
Locomotive is an open source project released under the Apache license.
Locomotive is available as a Universal Binary - native to both PowerPC and Intel architectures (It does, however, require Mac OS X 10.3 or later).
Locomotive uses "Bundles", each of which is a self-contained installation of Ruby, Rails, and all the necessary support software and libraries (as well as many useful optional tools!).
Locomotive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3637 words)
Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time.
Diesel trains or locomotives that use this are called diesel-mechanical and began to appear (although limited in power) even before the first world war which saw a number of simplex diesel systems built for the war, a small number of which survive and are still operational today.
Dual-mode diesel-electric/third-rail locomotives are operated by the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad between non-electrified territory and New York City because of a local law banning diesel-powered locomotives in Manhattan tunnels.
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