If it is disabled, then many vexations will interfere with business affairs, and anticipated journeys will be laid aside through the want of means.
To see one completely demolished, signifies great distress and loss of property.
To hear one coming, denotes news of a foreign nature. Business will assume changes that will mean success to all classes.
To hear it whistle, you will be pleased and surprised at the appearance of a friend who has been absent, or an unexpected offer, which means preferment to you. [1]
The locomotive releasing steam suggests that you are doing the same right now. In women’s dreams, the locomotive indicates a great trip in the making. Seeing a locomotive under steam: you are making too much of something; you are overly ambitious.
Depth Psychology: The locomotive in a dream stands for die emotional energy that is driving you forward in life.
If you find yourself burdened with luggage, it becomes an obstacle dream; if your baggage is light and easy to handle, then your difficulties will be overcome easily.
If you were driving it, the augury is one of solid achievement; if you were riding in it, you can expect a significant rise in status and/or income.
If, in your dream, you merely observed a locomotive, it forecasts either travel or arrival of visitors from a distance. [4]
The power to make progress in your life.
A feeling of overwhelm.
Something that seems unstoppable or unavoidable, or the idea of control being out of your hands.
See also: Engine, Driving, Train, Tracks, Railroad, Traveling [5]
(2) It may be a sexual symbol, representing the penis. A locomotive going into a tunnel might represent the sexual act. [6]