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Usage examples of trainman.

Professor Leuten and I had a coach to ourselves, except for a scared, jittery trainman who hung around and talked at us.

Some thoughtful trainman, he noticed, had fastened a chain as a handgrip across the opening in case anyone staggered too much at a curve in the line.

Did you know that a trainman up on Donner Pass was pistol-whipped so viciously that he might even die?

He was so busy rummaging that he did not notice the train slow, come to a stop, and the trainman pass along the corridor bawling out the name of a station.

On the top of a muddy cliff, they found the body of the missing trainman, his skull smashed in.

When the brakie got close, they moved quickly apart and allowed the trainman to step between them.

The extra trainman, a tall, gimlet-eyed individual presumably off-duty and traveling for pleasure, had shown a railroad-pass when the real-conductor came through to collect tickets.

Galway, the loyal Irish trainmen had assembled most of the Limerick-to-Cork trains in the marshaling yard at Colbert Station.

Already the trainmen were hurrying out, some with lanterns, to learn if anybody had been killed or hurt.

A small shack was over there where relief engineers and other trainmen bunked.

One of the trainmen went to the nearest station to telephone for the wrecking crew.

The conductor and a few trainmen opened doors and dropped to the roadbed.

While the others were busy, one of the trainmen climbed the bluff to make sure there were no loose rocks to endanger following trains.

Those dangling cords hung from a horizontal cable, to warn trainmen in the dark of the danger of an approaching tunnel.

Already the trainmen were hurrying out, some with lanterns, to learn if anybody had been killed or hurt.