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- Switcher abstract "A switcher or shunter (Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; USA: switcher or switch engine, except Pennsylvania Railroad: shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around – a process usually known as switching (USA) or shunting (UK). They do this in classification yards (Great Britain: marshalling yards). Switchers may also make short transfer runs and even be the only motive power on branch lines and switching and terminal railroads. The term can also be used to describe the workers operating these engines or engaged in directing shunting operations.The typical switcher is optimised for its job, being relatively low-powered but with a high starting tractive effort for getting heavy cars rolling quickly. Switchers are geared to produce high torque but are restricted to low top speeds and have small diameter driving wheels. Switchers are rail analogs to tugboats.US switchers tend to be larger, with bogies to allow them to be used on tight radiuses. European shunters tend to be smaller and more often have fixed axles. They also often maintained coupling rods for longer than other locomotive types, although bogie types have long been used where very heavy loads are involved, such as at steelworks.Switching is hard work, and heavily used switch engines wear out quickly from the abuse of constant hard contacts with cars and frequent starting and stopping.. Nevertheless, some types (like the Swedish class U) have been remarkably long-lived.".
- Switcher thumbnail MP15DC.jpg?width=300.
- Switcher wikiPageExternalLink data.html.
- Switcher wikiPageExternalLink SHUNTERS.
- Switcher wikiPageID "346492".
- Switcher wikiPageLength "14129".
- Switcher wikiPageOutDegree "110".
- Switcher wikiPageRevisionID "692047315".
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Armley.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Armstrong_Whitworth.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink BR_Standard_Class_9F.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Beijing-Kowloon_Through_Train.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Beijing_West_Railway_Station.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Big_Four_(British_railway_companies).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Branch_line.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink British_Rail_Class_03.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink British_Rail_Class_08.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink British_Rail_Class_09.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink British_Rail_Class_14.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Category:Locomotives.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink China_Railways_DF7G.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Classification_yard.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Coal_bunker.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Coke_(fuel).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Coupling_rod.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Cow-calf.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink DB_Class_V_60.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Diesel_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Driving_Van_Trailer.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Driving_wheel.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink EMD_GP20D.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Electric_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Electrification.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Electro-diesel_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink English_Electric.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Europe.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Fireless_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Flywheel_energy_storage.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink GE_three-power_boxcab.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Gateshead.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Germany.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Great_Britain.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Great_Western_Railway.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Greenwood_&_Batley.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Heaton_TMD.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Heritage_railway.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Hood_(vehicle).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Hunslet.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Hunslet_Engine_Company.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Hydrail.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Kleinlokomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink LMS_Fowler_Class_3F.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink LMS_diesel_shunters.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink LNER_Class_ES1.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Leeds.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Lithuania.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink MR_0-10-0_Lickey_Banker.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Middleton_Railway.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink NS_Class_600.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink National_Railway_Museum.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink National_Railway_Museum_Shildon.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Newcastle_upon_Tyne.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink North_Eastern_Railway_(United_Kingdom).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Pantograph_(transport).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Railroad.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Power_station.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Rail_car_mover.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Rail_transport.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Railpower_GG20B.
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- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink SJ_U.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Sentinel_Waggon_Works.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Shildon.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Shunting_(rail).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Slug_(railroad).
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink South_Shields.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka_Railways.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Steam_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Switching_and_terminal_railroad.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Switzerland.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink TCDD_DH33100.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink TCDD_DH7000.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tanfield_Railway.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tank_locomotive.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tender_(rail).
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- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Torque.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Traction_maintenance_depot.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tractive_effort.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Train.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tugboat.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Turkish_State_Railways.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Tyne_and_Wear_Metro.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink Unimog.
- Switcher wikiPageWikiLink United_States.