Word: shunter
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...morning last January (the engine casualties had risen to 19), Joseph Harley slipped from the cabin of his shunter and cautiously hurried across the tracks to the locomotive of the Royal Scot. He swung onto the engine's footplate, manipulated levers and throttles inside. Then he scuttled back to his own engine and drove off while the Royal Scot careened backward down the tracks, and crashed as it left the rails...
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