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Bookmark or Share- The M1 Tank Engine - M1 Tank Engines - HowStuffWorksThe M1 Tank Engine - Tank engines weigh less and provide more power than reciprocating engines. Learn about the capability of tank engines and what type of fuel an M1 tank engine uses.
- Thomas the Tank Engine - WikipediaThomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher, published from 1945. He became the most popular character in the series, and is the titular protagonist in the accompanying television series adaptation Thomas & Friends and its reboot Thomas ...
- Thomas the Tank Engine TV series creator Britt Allcroft dies at 81 - NPRThe beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine ...
- Tank locomotive - WikipediaA tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines also have bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a tender-tank locomotive a tender holds some or all of the fuel, and may hold some water also.
- Britt Allcroft Dead: ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ Creator Was 81Britt Allcroft, Creator of TV’s ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’ Dies at 81 She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr ...
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