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The brakeman
noun
A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
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The brakeman gets down from the cupola and watches it go by Two red lights and a white one pass us The white one waves up and down.
The brakeman on Hays's sled, Garrett Hines, and another pusher, Randy Jones, became the second and third African-Americans to win medals at the Winter Olympics.
The brakeman is José Torres, 30, who grew up with Mr. Lada on 12th Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, which is how he got the job.
The brakeman was part of the GB America's Cup campaign last year, which is the level below World Cup, and was considered to be a strong candidate for a place in one of the GB sledges for Sochi, where the Winter Games will be held between 7-23 February in 2014.
(6) the passenger living in Chicago has the same name as the Brakeman.
And that means if you see the brakeman -- do they have brakemen on Metro-North?
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The brakeman-fireman-engineer puzzle has become a classic.
As the driver guides the bobsled, the brakemen or brakewomen lean together to keep up speed and balance as the teams work their way through the blur of labyrinths.
I'd wave collegially to the brakemen high up in the cupola of a caboose and talk easily to the men making up trains, who in turn would pull a manifest from their pockets and point out a decent ride, an empty box or gon on the next train out.
He has been at the forefront of a fly-tying renaissance not seen since the great Catskill School of late 19th and early 20th century tiers like Theodore Gordon, Roy Steenrod (the railroad brakeman who gave us the Pink Hendrickson) and, later, Art Flick and Harry Darbee.
Highland Park houses a Jimmie Rodgers museum which displays the original guitar of "The Singing Brakeman" and other memorabilia of his life and career, as well as railroad equipment from the steam-engine era.
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