locomotive engineer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of locomotive engineer
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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At every stop of its coast-to-coast tour, grown men are welling up, said Ed Dickens, Union Pacific’s chief locomotive engineer for Big Boy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
On that fateful night a decade ago, locomotive engineer Thomas Harding of the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway parked the train for the night in the nearby town of Nantes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
In June, a locomotive engineer died of a heart attack after he put off a doctor's visit when his employer BNSF—a rail giant owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway—called him into work.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022
“My father was a locomotive engineer on a railroad and my mother was a housewife,” Belanger says.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
"I had wanted to be a locomotive engineer, sir," was the boy's reply, "but now I think I'll stay in the city."
From The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
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