Shunting locomotive

A railway facility where freight cars and locomotives are sorted and assembled by shunting operations to form trains for onward travel.

A reserve locomotive is a locomotive kept in readiness to replace or supplement active locomotives in case of failure or maintenance.

The planning of shunting operations in rail yards or depots, including sequencing of movements, timing, coupling/uncoupling of cars, and the assembly ...

Shunting service refers to rail operations that rearrange, assemble, or separate freight cars within a terminal or on a siding, including movements, c...

Remote shunting refers to the movement and classification of locomotives and freight cars in a yard or siding from a remote control point, using remot...

Responsibility or process for coordinating and controlling rail shunting movements within a yard or marshalling area, to form train consists by assemb...