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A few of the words
- TENDER
- The tender rode directly behind the locomotive, carrying the coal and water that kept the fire roaring and the boiler fed mile after mile.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- FIREBOX
- A fireman shoveled coal into the firebox every few minutes on a hard run — the heat it produced could exceed 2,000 °F at the heart of the flame.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SMOKESTACK
- Early stacks were fitted with spark-arresting bonnets to protect the wooden trestles and prairie grasses the trains rolled past.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GAUGE
- Standard gauge — 4 feet 8½ inches between the rails — was adopted across most of the United States by 1886, finally uniting the nation's patchwork of rail networks.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Steam Locomotive: a free large-print word search
Free large-print steam locomotive word search — coal smoke, a shrieking whistle, and the iron horse thundering down an open track.
About Travel & Places
At full steam a locomotive was a living thing — the boiler groaning under pressure, the pistons pumping in a steady iron rhythm, and a plume of smoke unrolling across open country like a long white flag. The engineer stood in the cab with one hand on the throttle and one eye on the gauge, reading the machine the way a sailor reads the wind. When the whistle cut loose across a quiet valley, every farmhouse for miles knew the railroad was near.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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