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Trains
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, engine or water-driven rope or wire winch, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines. Train tracks usually consist of two running rail
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Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star?
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It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.
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Steampunk...Everything :] have at it you punkers you, everything is game from the steam era... t…more
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NOBILITY, my third ebook--and 7th published novel--is a hard-edged romantic thriller about pickp…more
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Do you commute via the train? Is the train the only place you can read in peace? Do you kill you…more
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Bc he likes trains? Yes yes *gremlin noises*
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