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
“My father was a locomotive engineer on a railroad and my mother was a housewife,” Belanger says.
From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2019
“Even if the locomotive engineer sees you, a freight train moving at 55 mph can take a mile or more to stop once the emergency brakes are applied. That’s the length of 18 football fields.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2018
A locomotive engineer had been engaged, as it was supposed he would not be afraid of anything.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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