WordNet
n. the operator of a railway locomotive [syn: engineer, railroad engineer, engine driver]
Wikipedia
Locomotive engineer may refer to:
- Railroad engineer, a person who operates a locomotive, usually called an engine or train driver outside North America
- Locomotive builder, a person who designs and builds locomotives
- Locomotive Engineer, an American periodical edited by John A. Hill (vol. 1 no. 1 Jan. 1888)
Usage examples of "locomotive engineer".
There were eleven physicians and surgeons at the reunion, one ex-governor, two state senators, a locomotive engineer, and a crossing guard.
Then he turned to the locomotive engineer, who had driven the train from Denver.
Great-grandfather was a steam locomotive engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad.
Longarm could only imagine what kind of a white, frozen hell the locomotive engineer must be fighting as he peered vainly ahead into the freezing maelstrom, trying to gauge where each of the many switchbacks would be and hoping that the snow did not stick on the ground to block the rails.
The locomotive engineer claims to have seen 2 or 3 Springers in the tunnel.
He's a mountain of a man-a former locomotive engineer, and an expert electrician, but not too popular.
His tux sported a vest with a heavy gold chain draped across the front, attached to a pocket watch that had once belonged to his great-grandfather, who had been a steam locomotive engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad.
The divers moved several meters away, and one made a jerking motion with his hand like a locomotive engineer pulling the whistle cord.
Lately I had struck up a friendship with Oskar Weber, the son of a locomotive engineer, without really knowing what drew me to him.
He was driving with his right hand and leaning out the window like a locomotive engineer.
He was smoking happily now, poking at his pipe bowl with the blade of a penknife, and attending to every strand of burning tobacco with all the loving care of a locomotive engineer.