Trains were efficient for carrying large numbers of travelers because a single guideway (track) could carry many trains each day, and the number of workers did not have to increase in proportion to the number of vehicles: one motorman or engineer could operate a train with many cars, perhaps with the help of one or two conductors to collect fares.
Mr. Quinby almost grew up on line of old N. J. Rapid Transit, and in 1916, got a job on the line, and worked as motorman until the war.
Talk story about a subway motorman, Mr. PatrickChristy, who has been driving trains for over thirty years.
She got in and asked the motorman why the others hadn't stopped.
Cherkov had a… Composite PROFILE of John Gilhaus, a former motorman on the Sixth Avenue line for 38 years.
When her young father, a motorman for the B.R.T. whose grave she never found, sent her mother to do the shopping while he had himself a little nap.
It was addressed to the former occupant of the room, signed by the Co-Op,… Talk story about Bryan Hannon, motorman No. 966, on the Broadway surface line, who is also something of a linguist & writer of history.
Tells about his earnins as a motorman, his investments - all in life insurance- his home, family, the company's indifference to its old employees.
Talk story about Bryan Hannon, motorman No. 966, on the Broadway surface line, who is also something of a linguist & writer of history.
Met John F. Hylan when he worked in Post Office and Hylan was subway motorman.
The horrific Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia this week set off some predictable uncertainty about what exactly had happened — a reckless motorman?
