Switcher
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.
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by: TiandraCRAZY OVER YOU
When I see you walking down the hallway in school things go across my mind.
You smile ask me how im doing and I say fine.
Knowing that I feel some type of way I manage to say ok,
That’s when I realize.
Boy im going crazy over you, you got me doing things that I would never do.
Boy I wanna take and make you my own toy.
I’m going crazy over you, you boy.
As I sitting in class not listening to what my teacher says.
Writing x and o’s in my notebook checking out how good you look.
I’m thinking bout how far we can go, all that we can be I just wanna see.
Boy I’m going crazy over you, you got me doing things that I would never do.
Boy I wanna take and make you my own toy.
I’m going crazy over you, you boy.
Yea, im going crazy over you, you make me do things that I would never do, like stop and stare and look in your eyes. Now I know I feel some type of way by my feelings inside.
Boy I’m going crazy over you, you got me doing things that I would never do.
Boy I wanna take and make you my own toy.
I’m going crazy over you, you boy.
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I’m going crazy, over you
I’m going crazy, over you
I’m going crazy, over you
boy Yea.