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The one in the picture looks like it's powered by diesel or gasoline rather than steam. I wonder if it might not be better to rewrite this so that the means of powering the donkey aren't so central. These things are still in use and they're roughly the same as ever, but I doubt there were many powered by steam after the perfection of the internal combustion engine. They were still called donkeys, though, and the people who operated them were still called donkey punchers. Obviously this kind of major change needs discussion here for a while, hence this note.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:23, 29 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
Yes - I noticed the same thing. We probably need to revise both this article and the Steam donkey one to make clear that a 'donkey' may be diesel powered. Then again, to confuse matters further, civil airline pilots seem to routinely refer to jet engines as 'donks'. [1] The 'donkey' metaphor seems to be widespread. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
Technology time line of the various industrial uses for the Donkey (steam), Donkey (internal combustion), (electric) etc. Use of the donkey in the rail industry. Categorization work to improve finding and linking the various topics with their uses. Welcoming discussion. Greetings, Paptilian (talk) 14:35, 16 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Work as defined by scientific process began with steam motive power, the train locomotive was just one invention for motive power, the winch is about the steam donkey and other topics being linked and referenced. Paptilian (talk) 14:40, 16 November 2019 (UTC)Reply