signalman
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“I was choked up,” said Matthew Di Gioia, 25, who works as an Amtrak signalman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Tarr followed with “The Man From London,” which he and Krasznahorkai adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, about a seaside railway signalman who confronts a moral quandary involving a murder mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
His father was a railway signalman and his mother came from a mining family.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
Jacobs was 17 when he joined the Navy in November 1944, after D-Day, and became a Navy signalman.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Note, however, that if the signalman had belonged to another company it would have been quite otherwise.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
The workers include locomotive engineers, machinists, electricians and signalmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
The Association of American Railroads trade group said in a statement that the new dispatcher and signalmen rules aren’t likely to make a significant improvement in safety because the railroads already train their employees.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
And signalmen who maintain signals and warnings at rail crossings have bigger territories to cover, making it harder to keep up with preventative maintenance.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
While the signalmen responsible for the crash at Quintinshill were both jailed, they served just over a year in prison and were reemployed in the railways after their release.
From BBC ● May 23, 2015
As the invasion neared, there had been a sudden rash of injuries to signalmen.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
