locomotura

Updated: July 21, 2025

There was a patter of feet, a rattle of chains, and somebody called: "Adelante locomotura!" The engine snorted, the wheels ground through the fragments of concrete scattered about the line, and the big dark mass rolled slowly forward. It seemed to Dick to be going farther than it ought, but he had ascertained that the guard-rail was securely fastened.

Harold Bindloss - Brandon of the Engineers