A diminutive switching locomotive, typically a small diesel-mechanical or diesel-hydraulic unit used in private industrial yards, grain elevators, or repair facilities. These units lack the horsepower and weight of mainline road power, designed instead to move a handful of cars at low speeds over tight industry trackage.
Heard on the job
The mill uses a little 40-ton critter to shuffle gondolas under the loading chute.
Also heard as
- dinkey
- goat