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Shunting (rail)
Process of sorting rolling stock into complete trains / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Shunting (disambiguation).
Shunting, in railway operations, is the process of sorting items of rolling stock into complete trains, or the reverse. In the United States this activity is known as switching.
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