Sentence examples for train brakeman from inspiring English sources

Born into a working-class French Canadian family in central Massachusetts, Gravel went to Alaska in the 1950s and worked as a train brakeman and developed real estate.

His hits, which span the emotional gauntlet and incorporate elements of a wide variety of genres, include "Miss the Mississipi and You," "Daddy and Home," "My Carolina Sunshine Girl," "Waiting for a Train," "Brakeman's Blues," "Frankie and Johnny," "Mississippi River Blues," and "My Time Ain't Long".

Schwarz's mother was a nurse, his father a train conductor and brakeman who died when Chuck was a teen-ager.

At 11 30 am, March 27, recognizing his description from a newspaper story, the engineer and brakeman of a train, from Philadelphia to Jersey City, crossing the Hackensack Bridge, spotted Jackalow running towards the woods.

And, just after seven o'clock, the brakeman of a southbound train passing the colony saw a man in uniform setting fire to a tent.

When two brakemen jumped from the halted train, they saw a woman standing — dazed but erect — beside a mangled machine; with blood "spouting" (as the older said to me) out of her head.

On February 21 , 1858 a train heading southbound experienced an accident when a brakeman, John Freeland, fell off the train and was run over.

The group staffs the depots and train rides, teaching aspiring railroaders to be conductors, brakemen, firemen and engineers.

His father worked on the railroad — he started out as a brakeman and ended up driving coal trains.

The names, not necessarily respectively, of the brakeman, fireman, and engineer of a certain train were Smith, Jones, and Robinson.

Train crews would sometimes play a trick on a brakeman on his first journey on the line.