yardmaster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yardmaster
Example Sentences
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“Funky, twisty,” is how Camp Small yardmaster Shaun Preston describes them.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2022
Hudson’s grandfather was a yardmaster for the Milwaukee Road and his uncles were also “railroad guys,” he said.
From Washington Times ● May 14, 2017
Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was a yardmaster for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; his mother was a saleswoman and later a social worker.
From Washington Post
The yardmaster passed with a bulldog at his heels, and touching his hat to the contractor, turned the corner of the coal-shed.
From Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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