Electric train may refer to:
- Diesel-electric locomotive (an electrically powered locomotive used for hauling unpowered carriages or wagons, powered by electricity generated on board the train)
- Diesel-electric multiple unit ((a train of passenger coaches propelled by electric motors built into one or more of the carriages, powered by electricity generated on board the train)
- Electric locomotive (an electrically powered locomotive used for hauling unpowered carriages or wagons, powered by electricity transferred to the train)
- Electric multiple unit (a train of passenger coaches propelled by electric motors built into one or more of the carriages, powered by electricity transferred to the train)
- Accumulator railcar (a railcar powered by accumulators on board the train)
Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or train:
“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if we believed in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)