Jerking the throttle, the detective put the switch engine in motion.

A moment later The Shadow saw the switch engine.

He ran back to the motionless switch engine, climbed up to the cab.

His throat was cut and his body left on the tracks, where a switch engine ran over it.

But not more than fifty yards in the opposite direction was a motionless switch engine and a single tank car.

Billy Beemer, an old drunkard who died while playing with a switch engine.

Roger urged as the giant burst into view, puffing like a switch engine.

It was a Marmon, about the size of a switch engine.

That process was delayed while a switch engine shifted most of the train to a more distant siding.

The 24 hour operations of the switch engines are a constant feature of life in the Point.