A switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive...

A road switcher locomotive is a type of railroad locomotive designed to both haul railcars in mainline service and shunt them in railroad yards. Both type...

pioneering RS locomotives, representing the first modern road–switcher, a configuration which has long-outlasted ALCo. The success of their switcher and road–switcher...

were sometimes used for switch locomotives. In North American railroading, a cow–calf set is a pair of switcher-type locomotives: one (the cow) equipped...

The "Beep" (also referred to as the SWBLW) is an individual switcher locomotive built in 1970 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at its Cleburne...

The GE 25-ton switcher (also known as a 25-tonner) is a model of diesel-electric switcher locomotive that was produced by GE Transportation at their Erie...

inspections also found the railroad's only piece of rolling stock, a 50-ton switcher locomotive, to be deficient. FRA Emergency Order 19 v t e v t e...

The GE 44-ton switcher is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric between 1940 and 1956. It was designed for industrial and light...

is known as switching. Motive power is normally provided by a locomotive known as a shunter locomotive (in the UK) or switcher locomotive (in the US)...

three-power boxcab – tri-mode switcher locomotive model built in 1930, was also capable of operating as a battery locomotive. All retired and scrapped. The...