shunting engine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The winsome Ramona is a shunting engine, relegated to tootling up and down a small railroad station in the Rioni region.
From New York Times
The shunting engine was stationed at a hydraulic locomotive shed in Dematagoda, north-east of central Colombo.
From BBC
He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sings, waves his hands, and collapses behind a shunting engine, while four of the loveliest peaks that the Almighty ever moulded look down upon him.
From Project Gutenberg
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