If you see an engine in a dream, then such dream symbolizes the goodness and honesty within your personality and how powerful it is. The engine that doesn’t work signifies the betrayal and frustration from people you have trusted.

…Dreaming of an engine, denotes you will encounter grave difficulties and journeys, but you will have substantial friends to uphold you. Disabled engines stand for misfortune and loss of relatives….

…If the engine works with a good pace it augurs success and prosperity. If it stops that means that there will be delays in our plans and projects. If it works badly, it breaks or fails, or if an accident occurs it’s an omen of failure and complications….

…To see a fire-engine, denotes worry under extraordinary circumstances, but which will result in good fortune. To see one broken down, foretells accident or serious loss For a young woman to ride on one, denotes she will engage in some unladylike and obnoxious affair….

When you see the fire engine in a dream, then it shows how you are looking after the others instead of looking after yourself. The dream shows that you tend to give more, than receive. Maybe the unconscious mind of yours is trying to tell you to be more careful about yourself? Make sure you start looking after yourself.

…crash, and engine and coaches vanished from sight, over the side of a precipice. The next moment everything changed, and I found myself racing into the railway station to get my ticket. The place was absolutely deserted, not a porter nor a passenger anywhere, and the train all ready to go. The office was shut, as is always the case when we are in a desperate hurry in Phantomania, but, being determined to make the clerk hear, I commenced a vigorous cannonade with my fist on the pigeon-hole door. Presently the latter flew open, and out popped a bald, white head, with such evil, lurid eyes and sinister smile that, shocked beyond measure, I staggered back. As I did so, I came into conclusion with a porter, who, without asking my permission, unceremoniously shoved me into a train, and, before I could recover my breath, we were off. The compartment,…