trainman

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Kreichbaum, 24, was working as a trainman for the Cumberland Valley Railroad when he was drafted.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

That galaxy-spanning canvas springs directly from Green Lantern comics, which started in 1940 after a cartoonist named Martin Nodell saw a New York City subway trainman wave a green lantern as an all-clear signal.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2011

His nephew Mr. Steffes was a trainman at the rail yard.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2010

Hearing cheers that greeted Herbert Hoover's arrival at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, a woman pushed through the crowd to a trainman, asked: "Who is that man?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Up to that time it had been no sinecure, being a conductor or a trainman on the old Rome road.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward