switchman
Americannoun
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a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
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a person who assists in moving cars in a railway yard or terminal.
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Hult, who worked as a railroad company switchman for three decades after his military service, has plenty of company.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
His father was a switchman for the Canadian National Railway, and his mother was a nurse who encouraged his interest in acting, beginning with an appearance on a CBC radio play when he was 8.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2018
“My grandfather worked on the railroad as a switchman, and there are quite a few articles about him in the newspapers.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2018
According to birth and voter records, his father, Ova Childers, was a railroad switchman.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014
The party separated, one remaining with the reader, and hid a pin in the side of a little house used by the switchman of the New Brunswick railway at Mill Street.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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