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yardmaster

n. A railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard.

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yardmaster

n. a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard [syn: trainmaster, train dispatcher]

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Yardmaster

The yardmaster is the railroad employee in charge of the rail yard. They manage and coordinate all activities in combining rolling stocks into trains, and breaking down trains into individual railroad cars, and switching trains from track-to-track in the rail yard. Yardmasters are eligible to join the Railroad Yardmasters of America.

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They, the Five Points Families, I mean, and the Merchant Investors Syndicate, the Five Points Bank, cartels like Yardmasters and Fishers Co-op, and the Lockwardens, of course, each one sponsors a barge.