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
A barefooted signalman, his blackened face and scorched and torn singlet bearing testimony to his part in the "scrap", pattered along the shell-pitted deck, and, saluting, tendered a signal-pad to his commanding officer.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
In die nighttime drills, signalmen lustily flung themselves onto the rocks.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
