Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
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 The Steam Locomotive
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.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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