bank engine
helper engine
pusher engine

Bank engines are no longer used on the line.

This route had better grades, which made the use of bank engines unnecessary.

The line needed bank engines to pull freight trains over the pass.

Had a locomotive depot for bank engines in steam days.

It provided bank engines for trains travelling to Katoomba and beyond.

It is a place where a banking engine is often required to help trains up the hill.

There was also a locomotive depot for bank engines which lasted until the end of steam.

Eventually it was decided that the incline could be worked by a system of ' banking engines'.

Its steep grade limited haulage loads and sometimes required assistance from a bank engine.

In Laufach, a bank engine was attached behind freight and long-distance passenger trains.

Banking engines were also used on occasions.

Trains with uncoupled banking engines climb the ramp at 60 km/h.

Banking engines were kept at Braunton and Ilfracombe, to assist when required.

In later days, a seventeen mile stretch was operated using banking engines, the longest such section on the British railway system.

This section included the steeply-graded Usui Pass which required the use of bank engines on all trains.

The passenger train collided with the rear of the banking engine at 30 mph; telescoping the two leading coaches.

Bank engine or helper engine, a locomotive that helps other engines up steep hills.

By hooking the banking engines up front and back, the least time is lost for passengers on the Geislinger Steige.

The Midland had also found it more efficient to use smaller, less fuel hungry locos, simply adding pilots or banking engines as necessary.

Therefore banking engines are often coupled (or decoupled) to heavy freight- or passenger trains.

Mortehoe station provided a number of sidings for stabling the banking engines after assisting with the climb.

Wharanui railway station is still in use today, primarily as the southern base for bank engines used to help heavy trains on the line from Picton.

The banking engine, uncoupled dropped away from the goods train and came to a stand on the up main line, but was not seen by the signalman.

After assisting a train up the bank, the bank engine would usually return to Hawkesbury River station to await the next train.

Numbers 8400 to 8406 served as bank engines on the Lickey Incline after its transferral to the Western Region.

Men were needed to run the helper engines, so more families moved in.

This made it necessary to use helper engines and to make trains shorter.

It was soon realized that helper engines would be needed on the eight-mile grade.

Locomotives with larger tenders were often used as helper engines.

There were two helper engines coupled at the rear of the train/' "Ten thousand tons?"

A helper engine was also stationed here.

Byron Hill is noteworthy in that helper engines are sometimes still used to assist trains making it over the grade.

The introduction of diesel locomotives, which eliminated the need for helper engines, further hurt the town's fortunes.

The steep grades posed operational problems, including congestion, slow speeds, and the need for helper engines.

"But I had helper engines that could push on me from the back, so I was pretty sure we wouldn't break in two.

No longer needed as a water stop, and with its helper engine obsolete, the Mill Fork railway station was closed down in 1947.

Before that special helper engines helped push trains up the Geislinger Steige.

Bank engine or helper engine, a locomotive that helps other engines up steep hills.

During the steam locomotive era the railroad stored helper engines at Helper.

Westbound, trains had to overcome a ruling grade of 1%, which often required pusher engines and helper engines.

Sidings may also hold maintenance of way equipment or other equipment, allowing trains to pass, or store helper engines between runs.

Helper engines were added to eastbound trains here to help with steep grade to the summit at Grand Hotel Station.

In Altoona, helper engines are added to heavy trains to give them extra power up and over the Horseshoe Curve west of town.

The railroad placed helper engines on eastbound trains at Thistle for the ascent to Soldier Summit.

The grade tops off for awhile and the helper engine on doubleheaded trains will be cut off here and run ahead light to Tank Creek.

When the introduction of diesel locomotives began to eliminate the need for helper engines to push trains over the Summit, Colton rapidly declined.

Unit SP 8317 (of the two-unit helper engine set coupled to the rear of the train) also did not have an operative dynamic brake.

Helper engines based in Crawford are used to help coal trains from Wyoming's Powder River Basin make it up the escarpment.

Sidings, an engine shed, and a water tank were constructed, and Piedmont became a wood and water refueling station for helper engines.

These engines are used as helper engines for the steam locomotive and as power for short excursions that are run for special events.

A shed was built at the station with accommodation for two pusher engines.

The fuel tank is of plastic construction, mounted under the pusher engine.

The aircraft features a pusher engine and twin boom tail.

The first is a biplane design, with a pusher engine mounted between the wings.

It was of all-metal construction, with a pusher engine.

Caproni therefore replaced the central, pusher engine of the aircraft with a more powerful one.

The pusher engine is close to the trailing edge, driving a two blade propeller.

The pusher engine was mounted on struts just below the upper wing.

The tiny pusher engine was mounted atop a parasol wing.

While these previous aircraft had been gliders, however, the Ku-4 was to be a powered by a pusher engine.

The SM.80bis was a four seat variant, powered by two pusher engines.

The XP-54 was designed with a pusher engine in the aft part of the fuselage.

It contained the pusher engine, pilot, and forward gunner.

Significant modifications included a double-articulated folding wing mechanism and a pusher engine.

IVa pusher engines installed in nacelles carried between the wings.

However, Nemecek states in his book that there was only one further pusher engine added; this agrees with the specification below.

Powered by a lightweight reduction-drive, 50 horsepower pusher engine.

The aircraft configuration is based around a pusher engine with canard foreplanes in front of the wings.

The Model 60 is a five passenger enclosed biplane seaplane with twin pusher engines.

The single pusher engine is deleted and this allows an additional fifth seat to be fitted beneath the old installation.

The twin pusher engines were carried in separate nacelles on pylons above the wings.

Second aircraft with new low set boom fuselage permitting a direct drive pusher engine installation behind cabin.

The combined tractor and pusher engines produce 'centerline' thrust and a unique sound.

The region around the upper wing pylon is faired in, just ahead of a mounting frame for the pusher engine.

The pusher engine and frontal radiator were carried on struts in the interplane gap.