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
How did these employees — a mechanical engineer and a trainman — know their company was on the block?
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2010
When he learned that the cover subject was not his kind of conductor, the trainman went on his disappointed way through the train.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trainman climbed up on a box and sat whittling a stick and watching Olive out of a pair of shrewd Irish blue eyes.
From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret
Canadian Pacific Kansas City reached a new tentative agreement with the union representing its engineers and trainmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
“Timid travelers may ask questions with no fear of being rebuffed by hurrying trainmen, or imposed upon by hotel runners, chauffeurs or others in blue uniforms,” a promotional brochure boasted.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2013
But on Thursday, the brought what very well could be be the first insider-trading lawsuit against a pair of trainmen.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010
Eder pays a flat, guaranteed annual wage of $16,460 to each of his trainmen, $4,640 a year better than the Penn Central pays, and he plans equal bonuses, regardless of salary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once when it was my turn at the air-hole, I saw in the moonlight trainmen carrying a length of twisted rail.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
