flying switch

flying switch
A method of switching railroad cars wherein at one point in the operation a car or cars run free, having been "kicked", that is shoved violently by a locomotive. Chicago & Northwestern R. Co. v Calumet Stock Farm, 194 1119, 61 NE 1095.

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