Rubber tired switch engine which climbs across tracks, travels on city streets and can pull freight cars along tracks like any locomotive has been named "Switchmobile", and was built to Pennsylvania Railroad specifications; length 23 ft 8 in., width 10 ft 3 in.; weight 35,640 lb; tractive force 30,000 lb; engine is GM 6-cyl, 208 hp diesel.


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    Title :

    New approach to yard operations


    Additional title:

    Ry Locomotives Cars


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1956


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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