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Meanings of switch engine in inglés

A locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard.

        Usage of switch engine in inglés
        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