A switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive...
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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...
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pioneering RS locomotives, representing the first modern road-switcher, a configuration which has long-outlasted ALCo. The success of their switcher and road-switcher...
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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...
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up switcher or shunter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Switcher may refer to: Switcher locomotive, a locomotive used in yards Video switcher, a vision...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Shunting (rail) (redirect from Switching (railroad))
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)...
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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...
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