switchman
Americannoun
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switchmen
plural
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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
Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
Included among Iowa lawmakers are pharmacists, doctors, teachers, small-business owners, a railroad switchman and a whole crop of farmers.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2016
After the war he worked as switchman in Chattanooga until his health failed due to old age.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
The conductors, engineers and switchmen running the trains are not part of the supply-chain problem.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
But what really bothers Joe is that switchmen haven't been listening to him.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2011
Even though I probably knew more than most switchmen.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2011
All the switchmen knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had in his hand one of those little red flags that switchmen use, which he waved on either side.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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