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

Once or twice a dirty-faced trainman stuck his head in the open door of the freight car, but he saw nothing of the frightened girl huddled between the boxes.

From The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series by Vandercook, Margaret