brakeman

How To Use brakeman In A Sentence

• In the 1970's the two-way radio made a big difference in making up trains and the brakeman were no longer giving signals with lanterns and lighted fuzees.
• Oh, Joe's got plenty of nerve -- of the right sort!" called a brakeman, and Joe, nodding at him, recognized a railroad acquaintance who had been present at some of the town ball games. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles
• With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Chelios wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
• All aboard!" called a brakeman, and the Comet Film Company, bag and baggage, started for the train that was to take them to new scenes of activity. The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays
• You will see it on my ticket if you look in your wallet;" but this, of course, the magnate refused to do, and when another hoot of the whistle announced the engineer's impatience he called a brakeman, saying: Lorimer of the Northwest
• It was the junior brakeman's ‘duties’ to stock up the van with coke for the stove and to wash the floor to the satisfaction of his conductor.
• With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, he wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
• “Chicago!” called the brakeman, drawing the word out long. Sister Carrie
• No one boarded the train while we 4 passengers, the conductor, engineer, and brakeman held a 10-minute conversation on the platform.
• The 32-year-old Chicago, Ill. native was also the brakeman on this year's two-man bobsled team in which he paired with driver Todd Hays.