Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. In contrast, some trains have self-propelled payload-carrying vehicles. These are not normally considered locomotives, and may be referred to as multiple units, motor coaches or railcars. The use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for freight (see CargoSprinter). Vehicles which provide motive power to haul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.

Use Your Illusion II

Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was one of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, along with Use Your Illusion I. Bolstered by the lead single "You Could Be Mine," Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more popular of the two albums, selling 770,000 copies its first week and debuting at No. 1 on the U.S. charts, ahead of Use Your Illusion I's first week sales of 685,000. As of 2010, Use Your Illusion II has sold 5,587,000 units in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA. It was also No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for a single week. It is the last Guns N' Roses album to feature rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin. It also included the last Guns N' Roses song to feature drummer Steven Adler, who played on "Civil War."

Overview

The Use Your Illusion albums were a stylistic turning point for Guns N' Roses (see Use Your Illusion I for discussion). In addition, Use Your Illusion II is more political than most of their previous work, with songs like "Civil War", a cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", and "Get in the Ring" dealing respectively with the topics of violence, law enforcement, and media bias. The thematic material deals less with drug use than previous Guns N' Roses albums. Use Your Illusion I featured mostly songs pre-Appetite for Destruction (with notable exceptions) while Use Your Illusion II featured more tracks written during and after Appetite For Destruction.

Kigwancha Sports Club

Kigwancha Sports Club or Kigwancha Sports Team (Chosŏn'gŭl: 기관차체육단; hancha: 機關車體育團; MR: Kigwancha; Korean for locomotive), known as Sinŭiju Locomotive is a North Korean multi-sports club.

The club is known for its football team that plays in the city of Sinŭiju, the capital of the area P'yŏngan-Bukto. It plays in the DPR Korea League. It won several championships in the late 1990s. The team plays at the Sinuiju Stadium. The club finished third in 2006 season.

Achievements

Known players (including former players)

Lee Kwan-Myong

Pak Chol-Ryong

References

Locomotive (book)

Locomotive is a 2013 children's book written and illustrated by Brian Floca. In 2014 it won both the Randolph Caldecott Medal for "most distinguished American picture book for children" and a Robert F. Sibert Honor. It also became one of the best 10 illustrated books in New York Times. Other works of Floca's are Moonshot, which also won the Sibert Honor, and Lightship which, for its contribution of information of literature for children, won the Sibert Honor.

Description

Locomotive, written by Floca, is a nonfiction book of 64 pages that teaches readers about the history of the first transcontinental railroad and locomotive of U.S in the 19th century. The illustrations by Floca follow the history, and the train, engine, station, countries, and people are shown as it was in the 19th century. Through the lines of the book, words are repeated and lines rhyme: “here is how this road was built, with grunt and a heave and a swing, with the ring of shovels on stone, the ring of hammers on spikes,” and “Wheels spinning, rods swinging.” Metaphors are used to describe places: “The country opens, opens wide, empty as an ocean.” And at the end, the book closes by using assonance: “here where you needed to go, here where you need to be……here with the people you’ve waited and wanted and needed to see.”

Locomotive (disambiguation)

A Locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. A road locomotive is a type of heavy-haulage traction engine.

"Locomotive" may also refer to:

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Locomotive (band)

Locomotive (originally The Locomotive) were a British band in the 1960s, from Birmingham. Their musical styles ranged from jazz to psychedelic rock and ska, and their original line-up featured Chris Wood, later of Traffic, and drummer Mike Kellie of Spooky Tooth. They had a minor UK hit in 1968 with "Rudi's In Love", before turning to progressive rock with their only album, We Are Everything You See, released in 1970.

Career

The group was formed in 1965, originally as the Kansas City Seven, by trumpeter Jim Simpson, with singer Danny King, saxophonists Chris Wood and Brian "Monk" Finch, organist Richard Storey, bass player Pete Allen, and drummer Mike Kellie. All the members had previously played in local bands in Birmingham. After they began playing less jazz and more R&B and soul music, they changed their name to The Locomotive, and gained a strong reputation for their live performances. There were many personnel changes, and by the end of 1966, after Wood left to join Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason in Traffic, Simpson was the only remaining original member. Other members by that time were singer and keyboard player Norman Haines, together with Jo Ellis (bass), Bill Madge (saxophone), and drummer "Mooney" Mezzone, later to become a singer and songwriter.