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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 (UK: shunting). 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 switchers tend to be smaller, with fixed rod-coupled wheels, although bogie types are sometimes 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.[citation needed]".
- Switcher thumbnail MP15DC.jpg?width=300.
- Switcher wikiPageExternalLink SHUNTERS.
- Switcher wikiPageExternalLink data.html.
- Switcher wikiPageID "346492".
- Switcher wikiPageRevisionID "584742782".
- Switcher hasPhotoCollection Switcher.
- Switcher subject Category:Locomotives.
- Switcher comment "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 (UK: shunting).".
- Switcher label "Locomotora de maniobras".
- Switcher label "Locotracteur".
- Switcher label "Lokomotywa manewrowa".
- Switcher label "Rangeerlocomotief".
- Switcher label "Rangierlokomotive".
- Switcher label "Switcher".
- Switcher label "Маневровый локомотив".
- Switcher label "入換機関車".
- Switcher sameAs Rangierlokomotive.
- Switcher sameAs Locomotora_de_maniobras.
- Switcher sameAs Locotracteur.
- Switcher sameAs 入換機関車.
- Switcher sameAs 입환용_기관차.
- Switcher sameAs Rangeerlocomotief.
- Switcher sameAs Lokomotywa_manewrowa.
- Switcher sameAs m.01ys5b.
- Switcher sameAs Q1079190.
- Switcher sameAs Q1079190.
- Switcher wasDerivedFrom Switcher?oldid=584742782.
- Switcher depiction MP15DC.jpg.
- Switcher isPrimaryTopicOf Switcher.
