dummy engine

dummy engine
A small railroad locomotive used only in the yards of a railroad or on the tracks of an industrial plant, sometimes having a muffled exhaust. Birmingham Mineral Railroad Co. v Jacobs, 92 Ala 187, 9 So 320.

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