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Hello all! New member here looking to identify the make or any other info on this small locomotive.

Hello all! New member here looking for any insight or info on the maker of this small locomotive. It was used by Bay Area Rapid Transit to move cars around their yard and has long since been replaced by modern hirailers. I know it runs off a diesel caterpillar engine with a chain drive. I...
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- Dec 11, 2023
- caterpillar diesel small locomotive switcher
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- Forum: Welcome Aboard
Industry Job

BNSF 3541 working Western Malting in Vancouver.
- Youngwarrior
- Media item
- Jul 18, 2011
- switcher vancouver washington
- Comments: 0
- Category: Western United States
GP16's and GP22ECO's

Two examples of geeps placed into a remanufacturing program. A matched set of GP22ECO's, KCS 2811 and KCS 2810, rest next to a matched set of GP16's working the intermodal yard, PREX 1601 and PREX 1600.
- RuckusRails
- Media item
- Feb 5, 2011
- belle dallas geep gp16 gp22eco intermodal kcs prex retro southern switcher texas yard
- Comments: 2
- Category: Regionals and Shortlines
Two Crossings in One

The South City Switcher rumbles across 3rd Street in San Francisco. Not only is it running down a street itself, it's also crossing a diamond on the street running stretch of MUNI's T-Third Street line.
- Superchief3751
- Media item
- Feb 24, 2010
- city drgw francisco running san south street switcher up
- Comments: 4
- Category: Track
Industry Switching In Montgomery

This CSX switcher is seen shoving a low-side gon into the Sabel Steel facility in Montgomery, AL.
- stagmie
- Media item
- Jan 8, 2010
- al alabama csx csxt montgomery switcher
- Comments: 0
- Category: Eastern United States
Liz yard switcher

Liz yard switcher is a broad gauge Orestein Koppel engine. Todays is using a new Scannia motor.
- pedrop
- Media item
- Nov 18, 2009
- brazil liz switcher vespasiano yard
- Comments: 2
- Category: International Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Southern Railways Chilliwack Switcher

SW900RSm 910 leads SRYs Chilliwack Switcher over one of the few wooded overpasses set along Vye Road in Abbotsford, BC.
- GMDX70
- Media item
- Nov 7, 2009
- chilliwack switcher
- Comments: 1
- Category: Regionals and Shortlines
Southern Railways Chilliwack Switcher

With the mountains in the background, the Chilliwack switcher makes its way along Vye Road in Abbotsford.
- GMDX70
- Media item
- Nov 6, 2009
- chilliwack switcher
- Comments: 2
- Category: Regionals and Shortlines
Hoyt St. switcher

On a very dark and damp Feburary 1998 day, the BN Hoyt Street switcher picks up some cars at the Port of Portland in front of the Dockside bar/grill.
- KristopherL
- Media item
- Oct 23, 2009
- bn portland switcher
- Comments: 2
- Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Moose Jaw Geeps

1686 and 1501 are the current residents of the west Moose Jaw yard.
- zartok-35
- Media item
- Jul 25, 2009
- 1501 1686 canadian geeps gp7u jaw job moose pacific switcher work yard
- Comments: 2
- Category: Canadian Pacific
Krupp

The plate of former Barra Mansa steel plant yard switcher. Now it is being restored at Holcim cement Co.
- pedrop
- Media item
- Jan 9, 2009
- brazil krupp switcher yard
- Comments: 0
- Category: Industrial and critters
ADM 80 ton GE

ADM located at Clymers, IN has set out their 80 ton GE switcher after the arrival of another switcher. Shot old school with K64.
- JETRR
- Media item
- Jan 6, 2009
- 80 adm ge switcher ton
- Comments: 0
- Category: Industrial and critters
The Malevolent

CP 1631 and 1621 violently smash things together in the west yards of Moose Jaw. Kicking cars is the method of choice, and even at 3 mph a single hopper banging into a consist sounds worse than a thunder storm. The sound travels well too, so you can hear it from several city blocks away.
- zartok-35
- Media item
- Jul 28, 2008
- cp gp9u jaw job malevolent moose switcher the yard
- Comments: 3
- Category: Canadian Pacific
Southern Pacific Alco switcher #1210

Southern Pacific Alco switcher #1210 at an unknown location. Photographer unknown, Brian Sopke collection. Date is probably around the late 1960's as some of the other photos in the group were of GN Sky blue boxcars.
- RRShutterbug
- Media item
- Jul 11, 2008
- 1210 alco pacific southern switcher
- Comments: 1
- Category: Vintage Freight Train Photos - Diesel Era
Goat Meets Goat

The San Francisco Belt Railroad employs two kinds of goats. One for kicking cars, the other kind for eating the weeds between the rails. They operate a waste transloading operation out of one of the piers and have a small yard on the southeast side of town. Built for the railroad in 1946, Alco...
- Superchief3751
- Media item
- Jul 3, 2008
- alco city francisco san south switcher
- Comments: 5
- Category: Western United States
AN&R 1500

Locale Train Company severing Angelina County for over a 100 yrs. Moving car around at UP Rail Yard, Lufkin, TX Date Built November 1972
- Media item
- Jul 1, 2008
- a&nrr switcher
- Comments: 1
- Category: Regionals and Shortlines
Road Warrior

The brakeman on the South City Switcher doesn't bat an eye as he passes the bizarre mural on Carroll St. while riding the front porch of UP 589 to pick up a few empties at an industry farther down the street. This is in the heart of San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood, a gritty...
- Superchief3751
- Media item
- Jun 21, 2008
- brakeman city francisco local san south switcher up
- Comments: 9
- Category: Editors Choice Gallery
Transco Switcher

A little switch engine (Whitcomb?) working the yard at the Transco rail repair shop in Logansport, IN.
- JETRR
- Media item
- Apr 16, 2008
- switcher whitcomb
- Comments: 1
- Category: Industrial and critters
Living Dinosaur

LB Railco, a waste hauler based out of the Port of San Francisco, owns two Alco S-2 switchers for shuttling cars around their facility. #25 is seen working today to make up a train for the outbound South City Switcher, the daily UP job that serves industries in San Francisco. The power for the...
- Superchief3751
- Media item
- Mar 24, 2008
- alco city francisco san south switcher
- Comments: 9
- Category: Industrial and critters
Mainline Freight on the Peninsula

An especially lengthy South City Switcher puts on the appearance of a mainline freight as it roars up the Caltrain mainline at Bayshore at 50 mph with 5 engines and 30 cars.
- Superchief3751
- Media item
- Mar 6, 2008
- city francisco san south switcher up
- Comments: 8
- Category: Western United States

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