locomotive engineer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of locomotive engineer
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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“A locomotive engineer cannot be expected to safely operate in a more demanding service without proper additional training that covers the unique challenges and complexities those trains present,” regulators said in the advisory.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Not since Denzel Washington starred in the 2010 thriller Unstoppable as a locomotive engineer who gains control of a runaway freight train, has there been such a daunting assignment.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2022
A Naval Academy graduate who had been handed his degree by President John F. Kennedy, JJ — one of the six children of a locomotive engineer from Altoona, Pa. — was among the Navy’s best.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2019
“My father was a locomotive engineer on a railroad and my mother was a housewife,” Belanger says.
From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2019
In the innermost, Atock, our locomotive engineer, and I chummed together.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph
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