Locomotives
Steam engines and locomotives are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Steam engines" instead a noun "Locomotives".
Steam engines
Locomotives and steam engines are semantically related. You can use "Locomotives" instead a noun phrase "Steam engines".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Usually the trains used in this trope would be powered by old-time steam engines, but a few modern uses/parodies would use diesel locomotives instead.
Source: Chained to a Railway - Locomotives and some land-based steam engines do vent the steam, but they can top off their water tanks whenever they need to.
- This would have meant firing countless thousands of firemen when steam engines were being retired, so the locomotive men's brotherhood lobbied for all heavy locomotives to carry a crew of two.
Source: Crew of One
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Steam engines and Locomotives. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/locomotives/steam_engines
Locomotives & Steam engines. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/locomotives/steam_engines>.
Steam engines or Locomotives. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/locomotives/steam_engines.
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