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Meanings of switch engine in English

A locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard.

Usage of switch engine in English
1
Just get onto that house; it looks like a mission-style switch engine.
The Rules of the Game
2
He was a railroad engineer who drove a switch engine in the yards.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
3
He moved forward through the mud, searching the semi-darkness for the switch engine.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
It was a Marmon, about the size of a switch engine.
Cat’s Cradle
5
Rapidly he related to her the episode of the switch engine in Dexter Allison's millyards.
Then I'll Come Back to You
6
She was going cross there to Fisher Body and the switch engine struck her head.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
7
A switch engine letting off steam drowned the last words, and there was no applause.
Flamsted quarries
8
Somewhere behind me a switch engine was working.
Man on the run
9
He heard a switch engine in the Southern Pacific yards discharging steam in shrill dry spurts.
East of eden
10
One night he played hide-and-seek with a switch engine and got his sodden brains knocked out.
The Song of the Lark
11
A switch engine was bringing up a coach to attach it to the rear of the train.
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal; Or, Perils of the Black Bear Patro...
12
He's on a switch engine at Tillman.
The Short Line War
13
And occasionally the headlight of a switch engine zigzagged across the tracks- Iwasafraid I'd be caught in the glare-
Midnight
14
The switch engine was busily at work making up the train, and brakemen were signalling up and down the line.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
15
On the same Wednesday morning Jawn Donohue was oiling the old switch engine preparatory to making up a train of coal cars.
The Short Line War
16
One night in that yard"-hepointed to the window-" Istoodbetween the rails with a switch engine running me down.
The Daughter of a Magnate